Kevin Buckley wrote these words on 09/13/06 05:24 CST: > I'd like to offer up a small concern over what BLFS promotes as the "Core" > of Gnome2 and suggest that it could perhaps be cut down a little.
We don't promote it as the "Core" of GNOME2, we say these are the core packages required for a functional desktop. There is a huge difference. I see your point, however, we advertise that we provide the instructions to build a functional GNOME desktop, and the required packages to accomplish this are grouped together. > What I'd like to see pointed out (or refuted ?!) is that not all of > what BLFS terms as > " GNOME Core Packages" for Gnome 2.X is actually needed to compile what can > be thought of as Gnome2 software. Again, somehow you've interpreted the BLFS "functional desktop" as 'core libraries'. We don't advertise that we're building a platform for running GNOME apps, we advertise that a functional GNOME desktop can be achieved by following the instructions in the "Core" section. > " GNOME Core Packages" in BLFS would actually seem to be a Gnome desktop, > complete file manager and terminal emulator. Exactly right, a "functional GNOME desktop". > I was recently able to get a working, albiet not a fully-"pzazzed" but > a still more than > functional as a ledger, version, of GnuCash2 working on an LFS/BLFS system, > using only the following 17 Gnome packages Again, we're providing instructions to build a GNOME desktop, not just a platform to run GNOME apps. Applications which depend on the GNOME2 libraries (GnuCash, AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc.) have an accurate dependency chain (consisting of many of the "core" GNOME packages), why do these libraries need to be broken out away from the other packages that provide a "functional GNOME desktop"? It would be confusing to folks to have a section titled "Core GNOME2 libraries" and to say these should be installed if you need a base platform to support GNOME2 apps. Not all of the GNOME apps require all 17 of those packages you listed. Your list really is only accurate for GnuCash and perhaps some others. The current method, which provides a "functional GNOME2 desktop", and then accurate dependency chains for applications requiring just a portion of these packages more suits the intention of the book as it pertains to GNOME2. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 08:13:00 up 6 days, 8:59, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
