dependencies for gnome

[paul beard]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Randall Wood <
randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com> wrote:

> When I maintained this port, it was designed to deliver the official
> GNOME distribution set as completely as possible. So yes, everything
> is really required unless it has been removed from GNOME upstream and
> not from the port.
>

Cheers to the GNOME team for completeness, but still . . .

>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:51 PM, paul beard <paulbeard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are all these *really* necessary?
> >
> > Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gnome-desktop-suite
> > evince gdk-pixbuf glib1 gtk1 poppler poppler-data file-roller
> > gcalctool gconf-editor gdm howl gedit gtksourceview2
> > py25-pygtksourceview gnome-applets gnome-control-center
> > gnome-python-desktop gnome-media gtksourceview gnuregex
> > totem-pl-parser gucharmap system-tools-backends p5-net-dbus
> > p5-xml-twig gnome-audio gnome-backgrounds gnome-games ggz-client-libs
> > libggz guile gmp libsdl_mixer libsdl smpeg py25-gtkglext gtkglext
> > py25-opengl py25-pil py25-setuptools py25-tkinter tcl tk
> > gnome-keyring-manager gnome-mag gnome-session gnome-system-monitor
> > gtkmm cairomm glibmm libsigcxx2 gnome-terminal vte gnome-user-docs
> > gnome-utils gnopernicus libgail-gnome libgtkhtml3 seahorse avahi
> > dbus-python25 gdbm libdaemon py25-gdbm gpgme pth vino yelp firefox-x11
> > zip zenity
> >
> > seahorse *and* firefox? howl *and* avahi? Don't these do more or less
> > the same thing?
>
> Seahorse is a GPG frontend. Firefox is a web browser. No similarity.
> I'm not sure why howl is in there, everything GNOME should depend on
> avahi (unless some clever GNOME developer is using howl only on Mac OS
> X in his project)


Gah, I was thinking of seamonkey. My mistake . .


> >
> > I can see needing a lot of libraries, but shouldn't full applications
> > be optional? why gedit?
>
> gedit is part of the GNOME desktop as defined by GNOME. If you want
> the GNOME platform (which has most of the current GNOME libraries),
> install the gnome-platform-suite port.
>
> > Maybe there's something in these variants -- Variants:    graphics,
> > office, universal, www -- but it's not obvious to me.
> >
> > It would be a worthwhile exercise for maintainers to install a complex
> > meta-port from scratch, just to see if anything needs fixing. I can
> > only imagine how long this will take to build.
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
> Randall Wood
> randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com
>
> "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes.
> All the rest is just philosophy."
>



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