I think simply keeping up with Helix's patches is good enough. Helix
obviously doesn't consider Mandrake important enough (which doesn't
surprise me as they've almost all moved over to Debian). They are too
lazy to make multiple spec files.
John Grange wrote:
>
> Well i guess we got our answre, we are just plain screwed.
>
> -DarkWlf
>
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>
> Subject: Re: [HC Hello] Mandrake helix-gnome rpms;)
> Date: 11 Sep 2000 22:40:26 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacob "Ulysses" Berkman)
> To: John Grange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> John Grange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I want to first say that i am very impressed with the look/feel of the
> > helix-gnome packages and i am looking forward to the updates to come.
> > but I have one complaint. I use mandrake linux and starting with 7.1 we
> > are using a menu structure that differes from the normal linux distribs
> > but it gives us CLEAN orginized menu's without duplication, and after
> > installing helix-gnome packages, it breaks the menu system not only
> > causing the existing menu's to become cluterted but there after all
> > mandrake rpms installed do not get a menu item. Could you plz look into
> > updating the mandrake packages so that they are using the menu system( i
> > beleave it is direved or a copy of the debian menu system.)
>
> We don't plan on using the mandrake menu system as it is totally
> non-standard compared to the rest of the GNOME installed base, in
> addition to causing the documentation to be incorrect.
>
> Jacob
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