Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:46:21 -0700 From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: ade@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/GNOME 1.4 RC3 Message-ID: <15080.45901.170113.511112@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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> This isn't my day. Guess the sheer size of the damn thing is > starting to take it's toll. Note that: > > http://www.lovett.com/~ade/gnome/ > > also makes reference to an MD5 checksum file. Please verify your > downloaded tarballs against these checksums. If they don't match, > please first check to see if there has been an update (I've just > re-rolled some of the patchsets owing to conflicts between > fifth-toe and others). Hi Ade, I was grepping the mailing archives actually looking for a thread talking about GNOME 1.4 and as synchronicity would have it, you've been talking about it today! I went to the above URL and have a few questions. Please bear with me--I'm not subscribed directly to ports anymore (-doc and -stable take up too much of my B/W as it is) so this might have been already answered (but I can't find the answers in the archives). You mention in the above page: "Clean out your existing GNOME setup (all of it!), extract the tarballs..." When you say "GNOME setup" what exactly are you talking about here? Are you talking about the entire set of GNOME 1.2 packages you might already have installed on your system or "cruft" that is in ~/.gnome which might not be compatible with 1.4? I am assuming it's the GNOME 1.2 packages. If so, what is the best way to do this? Is there a published procedure for doing this (saying "make deinstall" in /usr/ports/x11/gnome is quite ineffective). You also say: "Please note that nautilus does NOT appear in these packages. It is fundamentally broken under FreeBSD and I do not expect any resolution soon. Apologies for any inconvenience this causes" That's too bad. I was mainly looking forward to Nautilus in 1.4 (mostly to appease the wife who "needs" a GUI FM :). What portion of Nautilus is "fundamentally broken"? Is it their code or some component of GNOME which doesn't interact with FreeBSD well? Where would the resolution come from? The GNOME project or Eazel? Finally--what is "fifth-toe"? I looked at the tar file's contents and it appears to be the "other" applications such as gnucash, mozilla, etc. Where's fifth-toe come from? Thanks for your efforts in bringing this to FreeBSD! -Jr (please cc: as I'm not subscribed to -ports) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, (space for rent, cheap!) | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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