Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:36:16 -0400 From: Margaret <scratch65535@att.net> To: "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: xfce4 build fails in 10.2 RELEASE: FNF Message-ID: <b28deb5dufatb5hidjneiil1fks91um4e6@4ax.com>
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Since as yet xfce4 doesn't exist as a package, I tried to build xfce4 under 10.2 RELEASE using only defaults. But the build fails in x11-toolkits because printbackend-cups.so is not found. -files.so and -lpr.so exist, but -cups.so does not That happened AFTER it spent 4.5 hours downloading a whole gigabyte of tex rubbish that gtk3 apparently wants. Since all I wanted at that point was graphics mode and xterm so I could debug samba more conveniently, I kept deselecting things and re-starting, trying to avoid having to waste those 4.5 hours. But nothing worked, and eventually I threw up my hands and let it do what it wanted -- which was to waste the 4.5 hours and then fail to build! I'm absolutely not trying to have a go at Olivier, the maintainer. He does yeoman work! I'm complaining about the kitchen-sink model that needlessly prevents coherent subsetting, needlessly steepens every learning curve, and needlessly makes maintenance harder. It's perverse and a violation of Unix principles.
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