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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:19:30 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.26 available for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904211617470.2672@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

JMC> > JMC> > Hmm, so currently there is no way to install gnome2 without requiring apache22?
JMC> > JMC> 
JMC> > JMC> Correct.  You could, of course, go through the meta-port, and remove
JMC> > JMC> gnome-user-share on your own (i.e. build your own customized meta-port).
JMC> > 
JMC> > Well, would you object to the following quick fix?
JMC> 
JMC> Actually, I have always shied away from such things.  We regularly get
JMC> requests to change the meta-port, but we long ago took the philosophy to
JMC> keep the Desktop meta-port as close to the official set of GNOME Desktop
JMC> components as possible.  If we add an option for this, then we slide
JMC> down the slope of making everything optional.
JMC> 
JMC> In the past I've simply prompted people to create their own local
JMC> meta-ports, or install x11/gnome2-lite (no user-share there), then build
JMC> on that for what they need.

Well, then I suppose we should at least say something about this in release 
notes, because in 7.2 one of *major* desktop application sets conflicts with 
one of the *widest* server component.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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