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Date:      Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:01:14 +0300
From:      Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Adam Stroud <adam.stroud@gmail.com>, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Gnome and KDE from ports
Message-ID:  <200506161401.19162.andy@athame.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200506161241.23934.lofi@freebsd.org>
References:  <d1a2799d05061412028b1ac5d@mail.gmail.com> <200506161241.23934.lofi@freebsd.org>

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On Thursday 16 June 2005 13:41, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14. June 2005 21:02, Adam Stroud wrote:
> > All:
> >
> > I am attempting to install both KDE and Gnome from the ports on
> > FreeBSD-Stable.  I have KDE installed with no problems.  However, when
> > I try to install Gnome from the ports, the build process complains
> > that xscreensaver is installed via the xscreensaver-kde port.
>
> Complains how?

Gnome explicitly wants the xscreensaver-gnome port, and there's a conflict 
against xcsreensaver.

Solution is to install gnome first (on a system without any xscreensaver port) 
and then KDE. KDE will automatically use xcreensaver-gnome if it is 
installed, rather than the plain one.

A.

-- 
Andy Fawcett                                     | andy@athame.co.uk
                                                 | tap@kde.org
"In an open world without walls and fences,      | tap@lspace.org
  we wouldn't need Windows and Gates."  -- anon  | tap@fruitsalad.org



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