nightmorph 07/11/14 06:49:38 Modified: gnome-config.xml Log: better USE flag suggestions. can't believe X wasn't in the USE flags; no wonder there are 800 million duplicated threads on 'cairo needs the X use flag set' for compilation failures while following the gnome guide. this should fix that.
Revision Changes Path 1.21 xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml?rev=1.21&view=markup plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml?rev=1.21&content-type=text/plain diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml?r1=1.20&r2=1.21 Index: gnome-config.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml,v retrieving revision 1.20 retrieving revision 1.21 diff -u -r1.20 -r1.21 --- gnome-config.xml 14 Nov 2007 06:30:34 -0000 1.20 +++ gnome-config.xml 14 Nov 2007 06:49:38 -0000 1.21 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml,v 1.20 2007/11/14 06:30:34 nightmorph Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gnome-config.xml,v 1.21 2007/11/14 06:49:38 nightmorph Exp $ --> <guide link="/doc/en/gnome-config.xml"> <title>The GNOME Configuration HOWTO</title> @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ <author title="Editor"> <mail link="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Lars Strojny</mail> </author> +<author title="Editor"> + <mail link="nightmorph"/> +</author> <abstract> A frequently used environment is GNOME. This HOWTO tries to describe @@ -21,8 +24,8 @@ <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> <license/> -<version>1.16</version> -<date>2007-07-05</date> +<version>1.17</version> +<date>2007-11-13</date> <chapter> <title>What is GNOME?</title> @@ -76,16 +79,17 @@ <p> Before you start installing GNOME, you might want to edit your USE variables. -Make sure that <c>gtk</c> and <c>gnome</c> are in your USE variable listed in -<path>/etc/make.conf</path>. If you want support for <c>hald</c>, the hardware -abstraction layer daemon add <c>hal</c> to your USE flags. USE variable -<c>avahi</c> brings DNS-detection to GNOME (similiar to Rendevouz under Mac OS -X). If you don't want KDE support (the other big desktop environment), remove -<c>qt*</c>, <c>arts</c> and <c>kde</c>. +Make sure that <c>X</c>, <c>gtk</c>, and <c>gnome</c> are in your USE variable +listed in <path>/etc/make.conf</path>. If you want support for <c>hald</c>, the +hardware abstraction layer daemon add <c>hal</c> to your USE flags. The same +goes for <c>dbus</c>, a system message bus Gnome uses extensively. The +<c>avahi</c> USE flag brings DNS detection to GNOME (similiar to Rendevouz under +Mac OS X). If you don't want KDE support (the other big desktop environment), +remove <c>qt3</c>, <c>qt4</c>, <c>arts</c>, and <c>kde</c>. </p> <pre caption="Example USE in /etc/make.conf"> -USE="-qt3 -qt4 -arts -kde gtk gnome hal avahi" +USE="-qt3 -qt4 -arts -kde X dbus gtk gnome hal avahi" </pre> <p> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
