Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:42:00 +0200 From: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which distribution for gnome2? Message-ID: <1314474120.13483.19.camel@xenon> In-Reply-To: <4E5935AE.5070205@freebsd.org> References: <714d74ca-0b09-493d-bd1c-c2cf598ecd4c@email.android.com> <4E5935AE.5070205@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 14:21 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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 > > I think OP *might* be referring to FUSE kernel modules, whose once upon a time required kernel sources to be present. That said, being kernel modules, my guess is be that the situation is actually still the same (too-lazy-to-check syndrome reporting in). FUSE is an optional dependency for, ummm... devel/gvfs, mostly to get a [pretty flaky and dangerous] NTFS read/write support, and the FUSE (the one we keep in ports) is a long time unmaintained mess that no sane person who values his data should be using anyway. As far as I remember, it defaults to off. m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)
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