From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 1 7: 1: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123F637B404 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 07:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02252; Wed, 1 May 2002 10:00:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g41E0Rd18169; Wed, 1 May 2002 10:00:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15567.62715.613851.493506@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 10:00:27 -0400 (EDT) To: "Schroeder, Aaron" Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Ok, I can't be the only one! In-Reply-To: <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A04EEC5AD@waexch1.qgraph.com> References: <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A04EEC5AD@waexch1.qgraph.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Schroeder, Aaron writes: > Or maybe I can be the only one not able to install (via ports only, no > sources) a lot of packages. Namely, desktop managers and applications, the > list is as follows: > > KDE2 > Gnome I"ve made these compile in the past. You need somebody with coding skills and time/motivation to fix them for alpha. The problem is that these things take SO damned long to compile that getting them working is an all-day background job. And if you're compiling them on your desktop, they tend to install in peices and if things break, you're left with a partly installed mess. So if (like me) you already have working versions, you're not terrible inclined to mess with them. Hmm.. is KDE3 in ports yet? I might want to try to make that work, as I would sure like a better Konqueror.... > Mozilla I've NEVER been able to get this to compile. > Netscape This should just work. I can look into this almost immedately. > Galeon (which requires mozilla) See Mozilla comment :-( > Citrix ICA Never tried it. > > > > > Please teach your MTA to not spam the mailing list with html'ized mail. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message