Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:38:44 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd@volant.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome 1 -vs- 2 Message-ID: <20020711223844.GG21234@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1026402670.357.13.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> References: <1355470000.1026373279@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> <1026402670.357.13.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:51:09AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 03:41, Pat Lashley wrote: > > When the GNOME2 ports were first added to the ports collection it was > > necessary for anyone using them to be very careful to avoid installing > > anything that would bring in certain of the GONME 1.4 ports which conflicted > > with the 2.0 versions. Is that still true, or have the conflicting ports > > been updated to refuse to install if the other version is already installed? > > In other words, is it safe to install GNOME2 (on a clean system), then > > try to install other ports (like evolution or galeon) without explicitly > > worrying about messing up the GNOME2 installation? > > To some extent, you still need to be careful. However, work is under > way to make sure GNOME 1.4.1 apps will not overwrite your GNOME 2.0 > desktop. Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome under the GNOME > 2.0 FAQ for upgrade instructions. oh! oh! oh! pkg_add -r will install nothing since almost all gnome ports have failed to build or something like that : # ftp ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All/ ... 250 CWD command successful. ftp> pwd 257 "/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All" is current directory. ftp> ls gnome* 200 PORT command successful. 150-Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. 150 Restricting network throughput to 65536 bytes/s. -rw-r--r-- 1 card wheel 11837 Jul 2 12:02 gnome-look-0.1.3.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 card wheel 38537 Jul 2 12:02 gnomecommon-1.2.4.tgz 226 Transfer complete. oops! also, ../INDEX is missing... Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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