Greetings, I was curious about what the plans are for upgrading SuSE packages to Gnome 1.4 when they're out and packaging Nautilus. Thanks Kevin Breit
* Kevin Breit (battery841@mediaone.net) [010326 11:45]: =>Greetings, => I was curious about what the plans are for upgrading SuSE packages to Gnome =>1.4 when they're out and packaging Nautilus. /start rant Well, I was a big Eazel and Gnome advocate. I thought they were building a desktop for endusers. When I complained to them about their installer not seeing SuSE's /opt usage and them not having SuSE RPM's to do a manual install. I was told to compile it myself and send them bug reports. They visited SuSE 8 months ago to show their software and it was on a laptop running Redhat..the promised us that they would have SuSE RPM's ready and the installer would handle it. It never did and now their excuse is that they layed off 40% of their staff. I hope they die a horrible dot.bomb death.. /end rant To answer your question..who knows..depends on when the maintainer can get to it. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
the good news is that with the resent exposion in popularity with suse , there will be more presure on for suse rpms. At 12:00 PM 3/26/2001 -0800, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Kevin Breit (battery841@mediaone.net) [010326 11:45]: =>Greetings, => I was curious about what the plans are for upgrading SuSE packages to Gnome =>1.4 when they're out and packaging Nautilus.
/start rant
Well, I was a big Eazel and Gnome advocate. I thought they were building a desktop for endusers. When I complained to them about their installer not seeing SuSE's /opt usage and them not having SuSE RPM's to do a manual install. I was told to compile it myself and send them bug reports. They visited SuSE 8 months ago to show their software and it was on a laptop running Redhat..the promised us that they would have SuSE RPM's ready and the installer would handle it. It never did and now their excuse is that they layed off 40% of their staff. I hope they die a horrible dot.bomb death..
/end rant
To answer your question..who knows..depends on when the maintainer can get to it.
-- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
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