Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Ben Rosenberg <ben@xxxxxxxxx>]

* Anders Johansson (andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [020526 22:00]:
::On Monday 27 May 2002 06.51, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
::> Well, how come when I uninstall all the Ximian stuff and remove the
::> Gnome directories and shared files..Gnome software will still puke on
::> itself and not give a valid reason like " error in directory <blah> with
::> config <blah>."
::>
::> This is the one thing about PC's that make this crap such a pain. One of
::> things I wish developers would do is make error messages that one can
::> understand.
::>
::> I got rid of Ximian completely and installed the SuSE RPM's and deleted
::> all the config files. I let it restart itself and I get the same error.
::> This is just goofy.
::
::I'm not saying Ximian is great, I gave up on that POC when I got circular, 
::unresolvable (short of manually tampering with the rpm db) dependencies.
::And I also have no clue as to what your problem is, I don't use gnome myself. 
::KDE (or afterstep, if I'm on an older comp) is better AFAIAC.
::
::I was just replying to dep and his conspiracy theories. I don't think that the 
::problems you're seeing are in any way connected with any forking of the linux 
::distributions. You're seeing a bug, not the death of linux.
::
::That's all I meant :)

Well, Richard posted a fix link earlier that ended up actually working
for me. It seems that Ximian (the dumbass's that they are) put a lot of
config files for oaf in /usr/share and a lot of binaries in /usr/bin
even though they KNOW SuSE uses /opt. Well, as soon as I spent about an
hour rooting through /usr/share and deleting anything remotely related
to a Gnome program and I ran their little oafd-config tool. It all
started working again. At least I can copy my stuff out of Evolution
into JPilot. I've used Mutt for a couple years so there is no way I
would trust Evolution with my email. I trusted it with my PIM data and
almost got burned. :/

So now everything accept Galeon works..and I know why as far as that's
concerned..it's because I'm using nightly build of gnome instead of
1.0rc2 which is what SuSE compiled it against. No great loss anyway. I
ONLY use Mozilla. The rest .. even Konq seem to half baked.

Anyway.. it's all good. I know what you meant.

-=Ben

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