On 13/08/07, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan@gmail.com> wrote:
On 13/08/07, JP Rosevear <jpr@novell.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 10:07 +0700, Michel Salim wrote:
On 11/08/07, James Ogley <james@usr-local-bin.org> 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. -- Michel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org