On Thursday 09 October 2003 12:02 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 09 October 2003 05.59, Franklin Maurer wrote:
Please search the archives before you use ximian. bad things CAN and WILL happen if you ever want to use a non-ximian version of gnome.
I am already using ximian, it works great. Please, a little less FUD if you don't mind
Perhaps you are among the lucky ones, there are many people whose systems were pretty messed up the next time they went to update their systems. Direct from ulb ... Using Ximian GNOME is fine up to a point. That point tends to be when you decide to upgrade your entire SuSE distribution, when the differences in package names can cause real problems. The fact that some packages, especially libraries, are installed to different filesystem locations by Ximian can also cause some problems. Instead of ushering people down the Ximian route, I tried to help people build their own packages to SuSE specification, and would post lengthy lists of options for ./configure. However, a lot of people don't want to have all the development headers and libraries required to do this, and other people want to keep the "purity" of their RPM database so that what appears in there accurately reflects what is actually installed.
James' stuff works great, i highly recommend using that instead of red carpet. --
non sequiteur. You can use red carpet AND usr-local-bin gnome. It's not an either/or situation. One is a desktop environment, the other is a package manager. not the same thing
I'm sorry I meant the xd2 version that is available with red carpet. -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro