On Mit, 2005-12-14 at 10:46 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 12/14/05, Christian Bendele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, > > building xfce manually (and the blfs way) is right now, imho, a pain in > > the ass. > > You obviously haven't been building GNOME! XFCE is a walk in the park > :) I think only one or two packages don't take the default parameters > for configure (eased further with a config.site), and only one or two > packages aren't named xfce-something-sameversionnumber. It didn't > even take that long, either. This was the most scriptable > multi-package build I've done. Take a ride on the GNOME build someday > to feel some real pain.
You obviously haven't been building OpenOffice.org! GNOME is a walk in the park :) Configure options behave as expected. This was the most scriptable multi-package build I've done. Take a ride on the OpenOffice.org build someday to feel some real pain. SCNR, I just like autotooled modular packages as GNOME or X.org 7.0 much more than huge packages like OpenOffice.org despite the amount of time needed to update many modular packages. Having an OpenOffice.org build break after 7 or more hours or having to rebuild the whole beast due to a minor but important change in one small part is just ridiculously time-consuming. It's also a huge barrier for new developers, of course. Jürg -- Jürg Billeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
