Re: Did GNOME go 1.0 too early?

[Jan Gentsch <gentsch ifm uni-hamburg de>]

Hi, I am the guy who made the screwed up 0.30 packages. They were at the
time not meant
to be well worked out packages, as well as that, they were build on the
5.3 distribution, which had a number of extra problems associated with
it.
Anyway a lot has changed since then and the problems should all have
been resolved.
You can expect 1.0 RPMS (the real ones, not the pre-release which is up
now) to be available on Friday at the latest saturday. They should be
complete, tested and working (of course ;-).
Compiling from source isn't difficult if you know what you are doing. I
have posted at various times tips on what to do. You can't go too wrong
installing rpms if you leave your hands of obscure switches like
--nodeps and --force, installing from tar-balls will clutter up your
system very quickly. I never do that anymore.
I suggest you give them another try, you might be pleasently suprised.

Jan.

Nils Jeppe wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 bratsche@dfw.net wrote:
> 
> > No, I believe his problem was that he said he's using SuSE, but the RPMS
> > were built for a Red Hat system. I've not used SuSE yet, but I'm pretty
> > sure that their packages are not interchangeable.
> 
> Yes, that's the problem. And I don't trust those SuSE 6.0 packages that
> are out. I applaud their efforts, but the guys who made them really
> screwed up with the 0.30 packages, so I am extra careful.
> 
> I did get Gnome to work using a combination of RedHat RPMs and their imlib
> RPM, but, well, let's just say it worked less than optimal - And I want to
> compile the stuff myself to see if it's a problem of the RPMs, or a
> general Gnome problem.
> 
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