RE: Base to Build From

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Sid Boyce [mailto:sboyce blueyonder co uk] 
> 
> 	I have tried various versions of garnome and cvsgnome 
> over quite a 
> period and have not ever got a successful build. If you start 
> out with a 
> working gnome from a distro, nearly every new app you try to 
> build will 
> require a succession of update upon update packages,

Are you talking about the meta/gnome-desktop part, or something else.
There's so much in garnome that something is bound to break, but it
shouldn't be too hard to get meta/gnome-desktop to work. There are
occasional one-off problems, but let's face it, you are building from
source.

> you get 
> so far and 
> run out of road and you are left with a broken desktop into 
> the bargain. 

While there is some risk of corrupting your user-specific desktop settings,
you won't damage the installed software because garnome installs in a
different prefix. You can just switch back to using your regular session in
the regular prefix.

> I live in hope of success one fine day, but it seems to be in 
> shifting 
> sand. I appreciate the guys are working hard toward that end, 
> but it may 
> be a long hard slog from where we are now.
> 	I suspect the developers' boxes have quite a few things 
> installed that 
> makes for success. The docs give a list of pre-reqs, but that's never 
> the full list.
> Regards
> Sid.

Murray Cumming
murrayc usa net
www.murrayc.com
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