Re: brasero requires gvfs
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.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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