Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:00:39 -0800 From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Gary Warner <gar@askgar.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What Version (GNOME - gnomeprint034, bonobo018) Message-ID: <3C7D2CD7.3EC6417@acuson.com> References: <3C7CF9F7.52B86A9D@askgar.com>
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Gary Warner wrote: > Then I went to try to go GNOME, and its a mess. > > I have been working with 4.5-RELEASE as my version, and my basic > problems are that anything I try to do working with GNOME has > dependencies on packages that don't exist anymore in the 4.5 trees. > "bonobo" and "gnome-print" are the two biggest ones that come to mind. Gnome has traditionally been a mess under FreeBSD. It's also a nightmare under Linux. The problem is not so much the vast number of dependencies, but the fact that there isn't a single Gnome version. Occasionally Gnome will "release" a version, but for the most part it requires telepathy or a dogged willingness to slog through the Gnome lists to know what versions of X go with what versions of Y. It's very easy to get things out of sync. I don't use Gnome, so I can't help you much. Sigh. The most I can suggest is to update your ports tree, and use ports. > Finally my FreeBSD friend came to the house. He said, "OH! Here's your > problem! You are trying to run 4.5! You should only run even numbered > releases. The odd ones are buggy!" There's nothing wrong with the odd numbered releases. This bit of mythology comes from Linuxland, and has nothing to do with FreeBSD. I would be hesitant about x.0 releases for any project, but odd versus even release numbers is only applicable to Linux. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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