Re: Updated gnome-* RPMs

[jg pa dec com (Jim Gettys)]

I understand that this is StarOffice's fault; I'll probably send them 
hate mail over the weekend. I've seen the thread in other mailing lists.... 
I'm just pointing out that if the RPM's get built to unnecessarily depend 
on other relatively bleeding edge bits, the user community drops, sometimes 
substantially.  There is only so much bleeding people can/will do.

Believe it or not, for some people (myself included) Linux may be a 
relatively new thing, and messing with my C library is not something I 
undertake lightly, much less when it would cost me an application.  I'm 
old to UNIX, and have worked with X since before it was called X, but 
am still finding my way in the Linux world, having spent much of my time 
recently working on Web stuff and growing tired of Windoze blue screens...

Just the view of an old fart, if you will...
				- Jim Gettys




> From: Michal Palczewski <mpalczew@w-link.net>
> Resent-From: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:49:24 -0800 (PST)
> To: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
> Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Updated gnome-* RPMs
> -----
> StarOffice is linked against the internal symbols of glibc 2.0.  They were
> warned not to do that but did so any way.  Now star office doesn't work
> with glibc 2.1.  It doesn't have to do with bleading edge or anything.
> It's just the makers of staroffice acting like dumbasses.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Jim Gettys wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > > Sender: marcg@mx01.together.net
> > > From: "Marc G. Glade" <marcg@unforgettable.com>
> > > Resent-From: gnome-list@gnome.org
> > > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 16:45:59 +0000
> > > To: Hall Stevenson <dhs@erinet.com>, gnome-list@gnome.org
> > > Subject: Re: Updated gnome-* RPMs
> > > -----
> > > Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Well, after many, many attempts, I finally got most of the updated RPMs
> that
> > > > I wanted... gnome-core v1.0.3, gnome-libs v1.0.3, enlightenment-conf
> > > > v0.15.x, etc, etc.
> > > >
> > > > Now when trying to upgrade them, they complain about GLIBC2.1 !!!
> > > >
> > > > I got them from a RedHat "starbuck" mirror... Is that the problem? Do
> the
> > > > RPMs at the gnome mirrors require the newer glibc libraries ? If so, I
> have
> > > > no problem updating my glibc packages, so long as it breaks nothing
> else.
> > > The packages do require that you upgrade to glibc-2.1. I'm using the
> > > glibc rpm (glibc-2.1-0.990222.rpm) I got off of rhcn.redhat.com and it
> > > works fine. The only thing that broke for me was StarOffice, but Gnome
> > > works fine.
> > > --
> >
> > Urrkkkk...  That is a show stopper to me: I have to deal with uSoft
> documents,
> > and StarOffice seems to deal with uSoft formats alot better than Applix...
> >
> > Any chance of the next set of RPM's getting built without that dependency?
> > Or is there a hack around that can keep things working without having
> > to have the new C library, or (least desirable) a hack around that
> > will leave StarOffice usable...
> >
> > Bleeding edge is fine, but I prefer to give blood at a single blood bank
> > at a time (in my case, the Gnome one), rather than all of them
> simultaneously...
> > 				- Sigh...
> > 				Jim Gettys
> >
> >
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