On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 08:16:33PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > There are a number of additional packages which might be contentious, > as well as a few other points to discuss (if this approach is > agreeable),
1. Cantarell fonts - I'm surprised that the gnome devs prefer a specific font, instead of letting fontconfig use whatever has been configured. I don't understand why this should be included, and perhaps an entry in the Xft part of Xorg-7.6-2 Testing and Configuration would be more appropriate ? 2. Poppler - Wayne has 0.18.1, I used 0.18.2. These don't support kde3 so I'm not changing the book until the future of kde3/trinity is more clear. 3. Gdb - Useful if you have to debug a program, but not part of gnome. I've stopped building it, but arguably it should be in the book. 4. Webkitgtk - Andy added --with-gtk-2.0 : that needs to be changed to an option, because gnome-3 needs it to be built with gtk+-3.0 (and defaults to using 3 if both are available). Similarly Wayne is using libexecdir=/usr/lib/webkit-3.0 and --enable-introspection, I guess the libexecdir could arguably be /usr/lib/webkit-1.0 when building with gtk+-2. It's also perhaps worth noting that glib will be updated to 2.30.2. When adding so many packages, it barely seems worthwhile to remove two, but here goes: (i.) Libproxy - this used to be required for libsoup, but after its developers changed it to use cmake it was reduced to optional (so, I have an agenda in purging such things ;-) Nothing else uses it, and in my opinion it no longer belongs in the book. (ii.) Gir-repository is legacy and currently only used by gucharmap, libunique, clutter. All of those are being updated to newer versions which do not use it, so I think it can go. 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
