Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:37:34 -0700 From: Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd@volant.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome 1 -vs- 2 Message-ID: <2994122704.1026769054@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org>
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--==========414122324========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:51:09 AM -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke=3D20 <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 03:41, Pat Lashley wrote: >> When the GNOME2 ports were first added to the ports collection it was >> necessary for anyone using them to be very careful to avoid installing >> anything that would bring in certain of the GONME 1.4 ports which >> conflicted with the 2.0 versions. Is that still true, or have the >> conflicting ports been updated to refuse to install if the other version >> is already installed? In other words, is it safe to install GNOME2 (on a >> clean system), then try to install other ports (like evolution or >> galeon) without explicitly worrying about messing up the GNOME2 >> installation? > > To some extent, you still need to be careful. However, work is under > way to make sure GNOME 1.4.1 apps will not overwrite your GNOME 2.0 > desktop. Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome under the GNOME > 2.0 FAQ for upgrade instructions. Ok, that helped clear things up a little; especially helpful was the list of 1.4 packages to delete/avoid. From the FreshPorts listings it looks like work has been underway to convert apps that are not GNOME version-specific to build with whichever version is installed. But it seems to me that it would be very helpful to make a simple change to the conflicting ports themselves (e.g., gnomecontrolcenter, gtop, gnomeutils, etc.) to check for the presence of GNOME 2 and issue an error message instead of building. I believe something similar is done in some (non-GNOME) ports where different versions are available but cannot coexist on a single system. -Pat --==========414122324========== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9M0CfncYNbLD8wuMRAg3wAKDaGNvNaII+2NZzVYgbwKqeqqEjjgCeIiEx SetGiiTO9c3r3soBUrub6js= =J5AC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==========414122324==========-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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