Re: [gentoo-user] XD2

2003-06-10 Thread myciel
Dan Fairs wrote: The reason I didn't want to do that was that Ximian ships half a distro with its desktop! It has customised versions of OpenOffice, and other such programs. I want to set this up in a 'sandbox' so that it can't mess with the rest of my system. In an ideal world I'd have a whole oth

Re: [gentoo-user] XD2

2003-06-10 Thread Dan Fairs
Hi, > Source isn't available for this desktop..? > > Is this no help..? > > Stroller. The reason I didn't want to do that was that Ximian ships half a distro with its desktop! It has customised versions of OpenOffice, and other such programs. I want to set this up in a 'sandbox' so that it

Re: [gentoo-user] XD2

2003-06-09 Thread Tom Wesley
On Monday 09 June 2003 19:46, Dan Fairs wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to play with the new Ximian Desktop. Since Gentoo isn't a > supported distro (due to its merciful choice not to use rpm) I'm looking > for a way to install a supported distro without repartitioning. > > I was thinking of doing someth

Re: [gentoo-user] XD2

2003-06-09 Thread Stroller
On 9/6/03 7:46 pm, "Dan Fairs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to play with the new Ximian Desktop. Since Gentoo isn't a > supported distro (due to its merciful choice not to use rpm)... Source isn't available for this desktop..? [EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $ emerge -s rpm Searching... [

Re: [gentoo-user] XD2

2003-06-09 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Why don't you first try the rpm2targz tool? You might be able to have it installed in gentoo :-) Of course if everything go well we might be able to cook an ebuild or something for the others who want to try it. On 09 Jun 2003 19:46:37 +0100 Dan Fairs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd lik

Re: [gentoo-user] XD2

2003-06-09 Thread Dan Fairs
> > vmware? Good grief, I'd completely forgotten about that! I'll give it a go... Cheers, Dan -- Dan Fairs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spiderplant.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

RE: [gentoo-user] XD2

2003-06-09 Thread Rex Young
bochs? vmware? -rex >-Original Message- >From: Dan Fairs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 11:47 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [gentoo-user] XD2 > > >Hi, > >I'd like to play with the new Ximian Desktop. Since Gentoo isn't a >supported distro (due to its mercifu

Re: [gentoo-user] XD2

2003-06-09 Thread Andrew Kirilenko
Hello! On 19:46 Mon 09 Jun, Dan Fairs wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to play with the new Ximian Desktop. Since Gentoo isn't a > supported distro (due to its merciful choice not to use rpm) I'm looking > for a way to install a supported distro without repartitioning. > > I was thinking of doing somet