Re: Did GNOME go 1.0 too early?

["Spud" <spud has a godcomplex com>]

>Me, I just wanna check out Gnome again after finding 0.30 to be a pile of
>poo. Anyway, the installation of the RPMs is annoying - I use SuSE 6.0 and
>I think I am getting a little fed up with the whole package idea but
>nevermind - but it looked nice enough so I figured, let's see how bad
>the RPMs are and grab the source.
>Big mistake.
>I expected some nice, easy compile.. But no.. not only do I need a heap of
>libs, it's also not finding a couple of libs that I do have, and ohwell,
>it's too early in the morning to get frustrated. All I want is a
>./configure that works. Other people are able to do it, why not Gnome.
>
>Sigh.


    Possibly this is the fact that you are using Redhat and their package
system
makes it impossible to compile anything from source? I had that problem, and
I ended up nuking my RedHat partition and went back to Slackware.