Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:17:32 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>, Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome 1.2 on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <v04210103b5c767b305fa@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <399BEB55.7631BE6E@mitre.org> References: <20000817123853.14134.qmail@web5105.mail.yahoo.com> <399BEB55.7631BE6E@mitre.org>
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At 9:40 AM -0400 8/17/00, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: >Paul Jansen wrote: > > > > I have just installed Xfree 4.0.1 on my FreeBSD 4.0 > > system. I want to install a nice Window Manager, and > > I thought I'd have a look at Gnome. I was just > > reading the 'requires' part in the ports collection > > and it looks like I have to install like 42 or so > > other packages before I can get gnome to work. Is > > this true, or can I leave some out? Is there a script > > that I can run that will install the lot including all > > the dependencies? > >Good news for you: the 'requires' parts in the ports field >are ports-builder internal information, you don't have to >worry about them. Just cd to the gnome ports directory >type make and it will take care of installing all of those >dependancies itself. If all I want is a window manager, then it is not necessarily "good news" that gnome automatically builds all those ports. All I am looking for is something a little nicer looking than twm, with multiple rooms (or whatever they'd be called in the land of gnome). That does not mean I want to build every application which references any gnome library, just so the window manager can put all of those things in it's menus. I am not sure what a good solution would be, and whatever it is I imagine it would require a fair amount of work to sort out. I'm just saying that "building everything" is not necessarily a GoodThing. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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