From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 27 22:19:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BC4106566C for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:19:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-sj.cisco.com (firebird.cisco.com [171.68.227.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC928FC0C for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:19:48 +0000 (UTC) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-sj.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p7RMJiXF020945; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fruit-rollup.marcuscom.com (jclarke-pc.cisco.com [172.18.254.236]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p7RMJd6H009722; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:19:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E596D7B.6050402@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:19:39 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michal Varga References: <714d74ca-0b09-493d-bd1c-c2cf598ecd4c@email.android.com> <4E5935AE.5070205@freebsd.org> <1314474120.13483.19.camel@xenon> In-Reply-To: <1314474120.13483.19.camel@xenon> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Gnome Subject: Re: Which distribution for gnome2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:19:49 -0000 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