Re: brasero requires gvfs
On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 08:57:30 -0700
Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:
> Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> writes:
>
> > On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:31:46 +0200
> > Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> >> > The concept of free software has become a myth :(
> >>
> >> There is always Gentoo if libraries you consider useless bother
> >> you. Binary distributions tend to enable all possibly useful
> >> features.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Sven
> >
> > Gentoo isn't the only alternative. Just in case Jessie turns out to
> > be unworkable for me when it goes stable, last night I made a very
> > nice OpenBSD desktop computer that had most of what somebody could
> > want on a desktop. However, try as I might, I couldn't get Sigil to
> > compile on OpenBSD, and my business depends on Sigil for the next
> > year or so.
> >
> > So what I'm now considering, as an escape route if systemd causes
> > everything to go to hell in a handbasket (and we don't know whether
> > that will happen), is that my main desktop is OpenBSD, with a
> > virtual machine running Debian or Ubuntu in a VM in order to use
> > Sigil and anything else I can't get to work on OpenBSD.
> >
> > I feel much better now that I know I have a Plan B.
>
> There is a FreeBSD port listed for sigil. If you don't want to run
> FreeBSD, you could at least look at what their port does to get it to
> compile.
Carl,
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!
I'll do that next weekend.
Did I mention that Sigil is mission critical to my business?
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
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