Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:19:39 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which distribution for gnome2? Message-ID: <4E596D7B.6050402@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1314474120.13483.19.camel@xenon> References: <714d74ca-0b09-493d-bd1c-c2cf598ecd4c@email.android.com> <4E5935AE.5070205@freebsd.org> <1314474120.13483.19.camel@xenon>
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On 8/27/11 3:42 PM, Michal Varga wrote: > 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. Right, that's why I said, "deep dependencies." I know fuse is still there, and I think the webcam stuff may also require kernel src. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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