Re: Helix GNOME Updates?
SB> Also gnome-panel is being delayed. It is the last bit of
SB> that new GNOME which appeared in Debian 2.2 for the Intel
SB> platform but did not get to appear for PPC.
CC> The GNOME stuff is really messed up on PPC. I spent an entire day
CC> downloading source and building packages, and I'm still not sure I
CC> have everything. (I wanted the new gnome-panel, too.)
CC> ... some of these packages don't even have
CC> useful warnings produced by their configure scripts, making it all
CC> the more difficult to figure out what obscure development package
CC> you need to get them to build.
This is an old problem. I remember raising it at the genesis of the
GNOME project; Miguel apologised, as it was also the very beginning
of it all. I proposed the creation of one (1) source tree with one
(1) makefile, along the lines of the linux kernel and the X11.
A unique tarball appeared where all the required sources were
gathered together, although still in different directories and no
single makefile. Then the monolith tarball was gone, and here we are
again with the good old problem and its consequences.
Sergio
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