On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:32:39AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Yeah, sure... Nautilus is version 0.8.2. That's because the (said broken > by the maintainers) version 1.0.1 (or so) that's packaged for x86 > already doesn't compile on PPC. (2 files missing in the music-view > component) so fix that problem. ximian is not the correct solution to nautilus not compiling on powerpc. > > speaking from experience (on x86) ximian gnome causes ALOT of > > problems. > > They're trying to do their best. It does work fine on a stable > installation, like what they say they support. Unstable is not > supported, testing is still a target moving too fast (and the problem is > that you can't say "I want Gnome from Ximian and the rest from Debian" > and that messes up things a lot. i *DID* use it on a stable potato system. thats the system ximian hosed. only way to repair it was to --purge each and every package originating from them and reinstall the debain proper packages. then i rebuilt some of the debian sid gnome packages so i could get galeon running. now everything works very well and very stable, UNLIKE it did with the ximian crud. and keep in mind this was x86, the `ideal' configuration. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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