From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 23:31:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D24CF1534F for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 23:30:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA07890; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:30:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA22245; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:30:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA57865; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:30:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:30:01 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Ade Lovett Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: GNOME: Does anyone use it? Message-ID: <19991005083001.A57727@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt References: <99100408410801.37693@fdho-w5.fdnet.com> <19991004162614.H65863@lovett.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991004162614.H65863@lovett.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 04:26:14PM -0500, Ade Lovett wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 01:30:20PM -0700, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > I do this one port at a time instead of > > letting make handle the dependancies. (This is a big enough PITA > > that I don't upgrade that often. My last update was 9 July. I'll > > be trying the current versions in a few days when I upgrade the OS > > to 3.3.) > > I'd suggest that you hold off doing an update for a short while. > > The GNOME folks are almost ready to release a 1.0.50 version (initially > scheduled for end of September), and a number of us are working on the > necessary port updates (by my reckoning there are no less than 23 ports > that have to be updated). > > This particular GNOME update is going to be even more messy (if that > were possible :) than the last few, since glib/gtk+ have to be updated > to 1.2.5 for gnome-core (and ports that depend on it) to work. > > Which means an awful lot of package deleting and recompiling/adding. It would be of very much help, if all this "package deleting and recompiling/adding" was commented in some kind of README in the base GNOME ports directorys. I've given up on trying to keep the thing going. > > Regarding stability, I've found FreeBSD GNOME to be about the same > as running under Linux (RedHat 5.2) -- during the bigger updates, I > tend to run two systems side by side (admittedly as virtual hosts > under VMWare/NT). > > Of course, as with everything, if people don't know about the problems, > then it becomes that much more difficult to fix them, either with > GNOME itself, or the FreeBSD ports thereof. > > Things are compounded for non-Linux people by GNOME's horribly > (in some places) Linux-centric nature (take a peek at the size of > some of the patches in /usr/ports to see what I mean). > > We try extremely hard not to introduce any further problems in the > porting process, but GNOME is absolutely huge, and RealJobs[tm] tend > to get in the way. > > -aDe > > -- > Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message