Re: Gnome rpm distro lacks management

[tommiy <tommiy ozemail com au>]

I've been trying to sort things out from here cause my install
works...well at least I thought it did until I uninstalled and then
started from scratch. Things do not appear to promising especially as
there are a number of package conflicts.

Things like the gnumeric-0.18 and gnome-games packages are still
requiring libguile.so.2. yes I know that guile-1.2 is listed on the
gnome web pages as a requirement but when you grab the rpms for a redhat
install you will find in the extra-src dir guile-1.3. Now if you install
1.3 you get libguile.so.4 not 2 and hence gnome-games and gnumeric will
not install.

The point is why have these packages there if they will not install and
will just confuse users. You just have to look at the messages on
gnome-list to see what is happening. I know these are unsupported RPMS
but geez you must know they will not install from all those mail
messages yet they appear again and again with each release.


jiva@devware.com wrote:
> 
> You are SOOO RIGHT!!  I am SOOO glad someone spoke up about this.  The RPMS
> for Gnome SUCK.  And they are what new users will use.  I agree 1000%.
> Thank you!
> 
> On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 11:14:29AM +1000, tommiy wrote:
> > I've been using gnome for a while and tried to convince some friends to
> > use it. They went off to their local mirror and grabbed the latest
> > redhat RPMs. They then rang me to tell me that it was garbage and things
> > didn't work properly and that were going to remove it all and use KDE
> > instead. So I went off and grabbed the same files they did and to my
> > surprise they are correct. It appears that the RPMs being distributed on
> > the ftp site have been made with either glibc2.1 or egcs and have broken
> > things for a standard install redhat machine. Its a pity that management
> > of the gnome packages can allow this to happen as it is what causes
> > users to abandon gnome. They install it and it doesn't work so they
> > remove it as rubish.
> >
> > Sad I like gnome.
> >
> >
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