On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30 2020, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > On 2020/03/29 23:13, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:11:07PM +0200, Charlene Wendling wrote: > >> > > If gnome or a subset of its apps doesn't build, then it sure can't be > >> > > used and debugged on powerpc. Even if the full gnome desktop isn't > >> > > usable, its apps can probably be useful. > >> > >> I don't see how gnome-control-center can be useful as a single application. > > Well Charlene mentioned running gnome on powerpc: > > >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:11:07PM +0200, Charlene Wendling wrote: > >>> *Some* GNOME stuff don't work properly. > >>> > >>> But it's not *totally* broken [0] :) > >>> > >>> [0] https://bsd.network/web/statuses/102065676125440442 > > But one can't pkg_add gnome if gnome-control-center is missing since > it's a RUN_DEPENDS of meta/gnome,-main and x11/gnome/shell. > > And let me repeat another point: > > >> > > Instead of discussing on > >> > > a case by case basis which app makes sense on what arch, I find it > >> > > easier to just fix the build of everything that can be fixed. > > *Especially* when such discussions take time and patience, while the fix > itself is (usually) just a CFLAGS or LDFLAGS tweak.
You missed my point. I stated my case and as I said we agree to disagree. Do what you want. -- Antoine
