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Re: [opensuse-gnome] GNOME:STABLE/GNOME:Community
- From: "Michel Salim" <michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:31:57 -0400
- Message-id: <f224c6140708181031t225de59al99122b9c0d0b83fb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 13/08/07, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 13/08/07, JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 10:07 +0700, Michel Salim wrote:
> > > On 11/08/07, James Ogley <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Just wondered how stable (for want of a better word) GNOME:STABLE is?
> > > >
> > > > Had been wondering whether it might be an idea to change the target for
> > > > GNOME:Community for products < openSUSE_Factory to be
> > > > GNOME:STABLE/<product> if G:S is stable enough?
> > >
> > > I've been unable to switch cleanly from stock 10.2 + updates to G:S,
> > > probably mainly due to the prefix switch (/opt/gnome -> /usr).
> >
> > What problems have you had?
> >
> YaST would choke on gnome-mime-data. If I uninstall it, upgrade most
> of the GNOME packages and then reinstall, I'll still end up with about
> 60+ MB of things in /opt/gnome, and the GNOME installation is broken
> (slab and some menu packages were still not upgraded, last time I
> checked).
>
> Seems like the safe option, when shifting to G:S, is to do the upgrade
> when using the KDE desktop, and to begin by removing the old
> /opt/gnome stuff completely.
>
Just tried doing a clean install with KDE only, adding the
GNOME:Stable repo and then installing GNOME (Patterns: GNOME Base
System and GNOME Desktop Environment).
Conclusion: you don't want to do this. I get a desktop with no panel,
the icon theme is messed up, and after switching back to KDE I find
that Firefox's KDE-esque theme is gone.
Also, helix-banshee does not work (podcast plugin doesn't work, and I
had to symlink /opt/gnome/bin/gconftool-2 to /usr/bin/gconftool-2 to
even get it to install)
Considering GNOME:Stable is only available for 10.1 and 10.2 anyway,
I'd say it's probably not a good idea to target G:C at it.
There's 145 MB's worth of stuff installed under /opt/gnome too.
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Michel
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> On 13/08/07, JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 10:07 +0700, Michel Salim wrote:
> > > On 11/08/07, James Ogley <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Just wondered how stable (for want of a better word) GNOME:STABLE is?
> > > >
> > > > Had been wondering whether it might be an idea to change the target for
> > > > GNOME:Community for products < openSUSE_Factory to be
> > > > GNOME:STABLE/<product> if G:S is stable enough?
> > >
> > > I've been unable to switch cleanly from stock 10.2 + updates to G:S,
> > > probably mainly due to the prefix switch (/opt/gnome -> /usr).
> >
> > What problems have you had?
> >
> YaST would choke on gnome-mime-data. If I uninstall it, upgrade most
> of the GNOME packages and then reinstall, I'll still end up with about
> 60+ MB of things in /opt/gnome, and the GNOME installation is broken
> (slab and some menu packages were still not upgraded, last time I
> checked).
>
> Seems like the safe option, when shifting to G:S, is to do the upgrade
> when using the KDE desktop, and to begin by removing the old
> /opt/gnome stuff completely.
>
Just tried doing a clean install with KDE only, adding the
GNOME:Stable repo and then installing GNOME (Patterns: GNOME Base
System and GNOME Desktop Environment).
Conclusion: you don't want to do this. I get a desktop with no panel,
the icon theme is messed up, and after switching back to KDE I find
that Firefox's KDE-esque theme is gone.
Also, helix-banshee does not work (podcast plugin doesn't work, and I
had to symlink /opt/gnome/bin/gconftool-2 to /usr/bin/gconftool-2 to
even get it to install)
Considering GNOME:Stable is only available for 10.1 and 10.2 anyway,
I'd say it's probably not a good idea to target G:C at it.
There's 145 MB's worth of stuff installed under /opt/gnome too.
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Michel
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