Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:13:24 -0700 From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/GNOME 1.4 RC3 Message-ID: <15080.47524.507007.192422@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20010426190719.N57173@FreeBSD.org> References: <15080.45901.170113.511112@hip186.ch.intel.com> <20010426190719.N57173@FreeBSD.org>
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[ On Thursday, April 26, Ade Lovett wrote: ] > > I mean removing every single port that either uses GNOME, or is part > of the x11/gnome metaport, all the way down to imlib (possibly esound > and glib12/gtk12 also if they're not at 1.2.10) > > No, I don't know of any easy way to do this. My builder/testbox usually > gets the rm -rf /usr/X11R6 /usr/local /var/db/pkg/* treatment :( ICK! Oooh, I can't do that ... :) Does anybody else have any means by which they've done this in order to test out Ade's RC's for GNOME 1.4? > to devote some more time to this once GNOME 1.4 is in the tree and > the gnome@FreeBSD.org pseudo-maintainer is set up. GNOME is just too > big for one person now, even if they have 30-hour days :) yeah, I bet! > Right now, my best guess is something inside the gnome-vfs component > and differences between the Linux and FreeBSD threads implementation > is causing Bad Things to happen. I spent half a day hacking around trying > to make it link against linuxthreads, but that turned into a real mess :) Hmmm. That sucks. Definitely sounds like something that would take a concerted effort to figure out. > Look at the GNOME logo. It has 4 toes. The fifth-toe metaport is simply > a collection of utilities to "broaden the GNOME experience", it is in aaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Make sense now :) > no way mandatory, simply a convenient means to bring a bunch of software > together. Thanks! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, (space for rent, cheap!) | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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