[ale] Slackware to drop Gnome?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 20:36, Jim Philips wrote:

> I've never tried to build all of Gnome from source, but building some Gnome 
> programs introduces dependency nightmares of all kinds. I tried once to build 
> Evolution for my Slackware box and quickly gave up on it. Building KDE from 
> source, on the other hand, is quite easy. If you have Qt and Arts and a 
> reasonably up to date system, it's going to build, and with no arcane 
> dependencies to add.

Gnome is a bear to build from scratch. It has stuffspread out all over
the place. The solution I have found is Garnome. It downloads all the
sources and works out the deps pretty well. Then it compiles the entire
mess into a directory of your choice where you can set startx scripts to
use and test a new version of Gnome.

The dropline gnome pages are currently offline due to /.

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