Re: CVS question

[Tim Moore <tmoore tembel org>]

Mark Galassi wrote:
> 
>     Soren> Go ahead and uninstall everything if you aren't so attached
>     Soren> to GNOME that you've gotta have it running next time you
>     Soren> start X.  As I've said before to other people, anything old
>     Soren> enough to have a version number is probably too out of date
>     Soren> to be worth lying around your system if you want to keep up
>     Soren> with GNOME.  CVS really isn't too difficult to get working
>     Soren> (though you might have problems with libgtop over the next
>     Soren> few days until Martin finishes the new version -- get the
>     Soren> tarballs if it doesn't work).
> 
> Soren and others,
> 
> There's a problem with the advice of uninstalling everything that
> comes with Red Hat: if you want to runt he GIMP, you cannot uninstall
> gtk+ and friends.
> 

This is true, but it shouldn't be a problem to have multiple versions of
gtk+ and glib installed. Just make sure that you remove the *-devel
packages for them as those may cause problems.

Tim