Re: Big Gnome, Small Gnome ?

2006-09-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/14/06, Kevin Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having looked at the Wiki section you linked to, I am left a little unsure as to its purpose. Is it just a list of stubs that match the packages in the current book (and is it thus synchronised with the current book ?). That's the main purpo

Re: Big Gnome, Small Gnome ?

2006-09-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 07:59:50AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > The place this would be most interesting to the average BLFSer is > obviously when you aren't building a GNOME desktop but you want to use > some of the applications. So, I do think this is interesting and > relevant information. >

Re: Big Gnome, Small Gnome ?

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Buckley
On 14/09/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you misinterpreted Randy the first time because what Juerg just wrote is really the essence of the matter and it's really what Randy was driving at. In BLFS, although were installing all the development libraries, the goal is to get a

Re: Big Gnome, Small Gnome ?

2006-09-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/14/06, Jürg Billeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Don, 2006-09-14 at 10:59 +0100, Kevin Buckley wrote: > On 13/09/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/13/06, Kevin Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyroad, the way I read Randy's reply suggested that there isn't really

Re: Big Gnome, Small Gnome ?

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Buckley
On 14/09/06, Jürg Billeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is an official "GNOME Developer Platform"[1] but it has no representation in BLFS - which is fine IMO, as BLFS is not a book written for GNOME developers. and The GNOME project is currently trying to move some functionality further

Re: Big Gnome, Small Gnome ?

2006-09-14 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Don, 2006-09-14 at 10:59 +0100, Kevin Buckley wrote: > On 13/09/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/13/06, Kevin Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 13/09/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ... > > > > Not all of the GNOME apps require > > > > all 17

Re: Big Gnome, Small Gnome ?

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Buckley
On 13/09/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/13/06, Kevin Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13/09/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > Not all of the GNOME apps require > > all 17 of those packages you listed. Your list really is only > > accurate for Gnu