From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Apr 30 7:17:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hub.lovett.com (hub.lovett.com [216.60.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E7537B423 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 07:17:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ade@lovett.com) Received: from ade by hub.lovett.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14uEUg-0005YU-00; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:17:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:17:42 -0500 From: Ade Lovett To: Erik Rothwell Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What'll be broken with Gnome 1.4? Message-ID: <20010430091742.V6215@FreeBSD.org> References: <3AED421B.87CAE5D5@callgtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AED421B.87CAE5D5@callgtn.com>; from erothwell@callgtn.com on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 06:44:43AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 06:44:43AM -0400, Erik Rothwell wrote: > Due to the effort required to remove all of Gnome & Gnome apps before > installing the new 1.4 port (I went through that with X... oh man.), I'm > holding off until I install a fresh system (might as well ;) always good > to start fresh every now and again)... but until then, I'm wondering -- > what will the inclusion of Gnome 1.4 break... I mean, if I retain 1.2, > will Gnome apps try to grab Gnome 1.4 as a dependency when I go to > update, say, gnomeicu or gnomemc? Yes. This is why there has been a (reasonably) extensive public testing period of GNOME 1.4 before I commit it to the tree, so that brave(r) souls can test this stuff on workstations other than mine, using features that I probably don't use. Post-commit date, I expect there to be a rush of PRs and other questions asking why GNOME-related port xyz starts pulling in a whole bunch of new GNOME stuff.a I had hoped to be able to get GNOME 1.4 into 4.3-RELEASE, which would have solved a considerable number of problems. However, due to the complexity of the port change, and the time available, I decided to hold off since a broken GNOME on a RELEASE CD would be a BadThing[tm]. -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message