In the hope that it might be useful, I've put my analysis of what I build (and how I build it), at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/new-desktop-late-2008-first-attempt.gz
Readable in firefox, but not recommended for lynx users (the decompressed file is about 120K, and 4000 lines, and I wrote it in a 100-char-wide term). Apart from reverting to an old gdm (below), staying with a very old xsnow, and the occasional failure to use the version I intended, all versions appeared to be current at the time of building. This has taken me all-but a month, and I've now got more than 50 items to look at for the next build (as well as finally upgrading to gcc-4.3), so I suspect the next version won't be completed before the end of the year. I originally wanted to try to document dependencies and required verions for the parts of gnome (2.24) and kde (4.1.2) that I build. In the end, I've gone into detail throughout the whole build. The worst part of looking at the detail in the logs is that I've found a lot more packages that include their own copies of libraries. In a couple of places, I'm happy to go with the local copy (jbig2dec in gnu-gs, kipi in kdegraphics), but in general I want everything to link against system libraries (e.g. libbz2 for firefox). I've rebuilt several packages to work around this, but I haven't tried to fix openssl or cmake in this build. In gnome, I've sticking to gdm-2.18 (I had issues with 2.20, 2.24 has a shedload of dependencies I won't touch with a barge pole (PAM, hal, etc). I've also noted that I still need the obsolete libgnomecanvas, both for the old gdm but also for abiword which is stuck with it). At least it is nicely usable. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
