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On 8/25/11 8:16 PM, Open Slate Project wrote:
> Once upon a time it was necessary to install FreeBSD with full userland sources in order to install gnome. Is this still true, or can "user" -- binaries and doc only -- be used?

I don't think anything in the core GNOME requires src anymore.  There
may be some deep dependencies that do, though.

Joe


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