From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Feb 27 11: 1:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B3437B426 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:00:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA485D; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:00:45 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <17X6DRRX>; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:59:28 -0800 Received: from acuson.com (bull.acuson.com [157.226.46.72]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id CJVDJN4Y; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:50:24 -0800 From: Johnson David To: Gary Warner Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <3C7D2CD7.3EC6417@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:00:39 -0800 Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: What Version (GNOME - gnomeprint034, bonobo018) References: <3C7CF9F7.52B86A9D@askgar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gary Warner wrote: > Then I went to try to go GNOME, and its a mess. > > I have been working with 4.5-RELEASE as my version, and my basic > problems are that anything I try to do working with GNOME has > dependencies on packages that don't exist anymore in the 4.5 trees. > "bonobo" and "gnome-print" are the two biggest ones that come to mind. Gnome has traditionally been a mess under FreeBSD. It's also a nightmare under Linux. The problem is not so much the vast number of dependencies, but the fact that there isn't a single Gnome version. Occasionally Gnome will "release" a version, but for the most part it requires telepathy or a dogged willingness to slog through the Gnome lists to know what versions of X go with what versions of Y. It's very easy to get things out of sync. I don't use Gnome, so I can't help you much. Sigh. The most I can suggest is to update your ports tree, and use ports. > Finally my FreeBSD friend came to the house. He said, "OH! Here's your > problem! You are trying to run 4.5! You should only run even numbered > releases. The odd ones are buggy!" There's nothing wrong with the odd numbered releases. This bit of mythology comes from Linuxland, and has nothing to do with FreeBSD. I would be hesitant about x.0 releases for any project, but odd versus even release numbers is only applicable to Linux. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message