I'm a little confused about GNOME on Cygwin. Cygwin installer claims to have a
whole GNOME section, but I can't find basic applications like gnome-terminal or
gnome-text-editor. Google shows there are ports of GNOME for Cygwin; but then
why does the installer have a GNOME section that only
So why are there GNOME packages in Cygwin? What is actually in them?
On Aug 4, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
On 8/4/2010 2:20 PM, Raul Acevedo wrote:
I'm a little confused about GNOME on Cygwin. Cygwin installer claims to have
a whole GNOME section, but I can't find basic
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:43:11PM -0700, Raul Acevedo wrote:
So why are there GNOME packages in Cygwin? What is actually in them?
http://cygwin.com/packages/
would answer that question for you.
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My real question is what is the point of these packages, if GNOME is not
actually in them. It's a bit confusing and I wasted a chunk of time trying to
install GNOME through Cygwin only to find out it's not possible.
Thanks,
Raul
On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed,
Raul Acevedo wrote:
My real question is what is the point of these packages, if GNOME is
not
actually in them. It's a bit confusing and I wasted a chunk of time
trying to
install GNOME through Cygwin only to find out it's not possible.
Thanks,
Raul
On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Christopher
On 8/4/2010 6:33 PM, Timares, Brian (HP) wrote:
Raul Acevedo wrote:
My real question is what is the point of these packages, if GNOME is
not actually in them. It's a bit confusing and I wasted a chunk of time
trying to install GNOME through Cygwin only to find out it's not possible.
Brian,
The short answer is that it's there to house all-that-is-Gnome. It just
doesn't contain everything yet. With some luck, it will someday. In the
meantime, there are allot of packages that make up Gnome. Since the
distribution has some of them now, it makes sense to put them in this
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 23:04 -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
On 8/4/2010 6:33 PM, Timares, Brian (HP) wrote:
Raul Acevedo wrote:
My real question is what is the point of these packages, if GNOME is
not actually in them. It's a bit confusing and I wasted a chunk of time
trying to
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 21:37 -0400, John J. McDonough wrote:
Something that should be mentioned. GNOME is a huge, lumbering system
with ten or twelve zillion libraries. Lots of programs rely on those
libraries, but no program relies on all of them. As you port a program
you may also need to
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:48:35PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
Since there are already in Ports, why aren't these in the distro? I
already maintain a proportionally large number of the distro packages,
and there is legitimate concern that having too many packages maintained
by one volunteer
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