Matthew Burgess wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> Don't know, and I'm afraid I don't care - building software became >> a lot easier when I gave up kde4 and cmake. > > I'm seriously considering giving up on it too, to be honest. The cmake > output clearly stated that I needed to use automoc from kdesupport, but > now folks are pointing me at old automoc tarballs. If the dev's can't > even be bothered to update their dependency documentation then it > doesn't bode well for the rest of what I might encounter. Various > howtos I've found on the net also point at pulling phonon from git, and > various other bits from their respective SCM repositories. That's not > for me, I'm afraid. How on earth upstream devs cope with bug reports > when they've no way of controlling/repeating what their users might be > linking against I've no idea. > > Following on from the earlier thread discussing lightweight window > managers/desktop environments, I'm currently trying to get lxde put > together. lxdm requires consolekit which requires polkit which requires > PAM. Despite polkit accepting '--with-authfw=shadow' it bails as there > are assumptions all over the code on PAM being present. What was it I > said above about developers accurately detailing their dependencies :-). > Aside from that though, I think lxde might be just what I'm after!
One of the nice things about LFS is that you don't need to always upgrade. I still use KDE3 as my main system. I don't need a lot of extra stuff. The main things I use are kicker and konsole. I never use konquoror unless I'm using it to check out a web page against my usual browser. I do really like konsole because if the look and feel of the tabbed consoles (Gnome's version seems klunky). I also like ksnapshot and occasionally use kruler. I never use the kde editors, koffice, kmail, etc. It's a shame that they didn't just do a straight port of kde3 to qt4. On my LFS build/test system, I use fluxbox when I need a window manager, but mostly I cna jsut run X apps there via ssh. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
