Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox-CVS on Fedora Core 2

[Peter Colijn <pcolijn gmail com>]

On 6/9/05, Stefan Monnier <monnier iro umontreal ca> wrote:
> Rhythmbox CVS recently stopped being compilable on my Fedora Core 2 box,
> telling me I need to install gnome-common from the GNOME CVS.
> 
> Is the intention to drop support for non-cutting-edge installs?
> I have no control over this here machine and it won't be upgraded to the
> code in GNOME CVS for at least another two or three years.  I'm sure I'm not
> the only one is such a situation.  FC2 is not ancient yet, in my book.

I think in most cases like this developers will use GARNOME or jhbuild
to get CVS versions of stuff running, installing things in their home
directory. Generally having potentially badly broken stuff installed
system-wide is not a great idea, and if you install things in your
homedir you can pretty easily revert to the stable stuff that comes
with your distro (eg. by making $PATH not include $HOME/bin).

Hope that helps,

Peter