Ken Moffat wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:31:16PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I have a question about Gnome. We have Chapter 33, GNOME Core Packages, >> with several subsections: >> >> Libraries >> Shell >> Extras >> Utilities >> Shell Fallback >> OS Services >> >> Are all these really required to get a basic gnome desktop? I >> especially wonder about "Extras". >> > > No, Extras (and your choice of which Utilities to NOT build) are > not *required*, but I think they were in the 'core' part of the 3.2 > release.
>> On the other hand, when we look at Chapter 34, GNOME Additional >> Packages, are all the packages in Core required? I would assume that >> the dependencies referenced in each package would be sufficient, but >> that isn't stated explicitly. It looks like some do not make any sense >> without a gnome environment (e.g. gnome-video-effects-0.3.0), but others >> may well be run under kde or other shell (e.g. GNOME Games). >> > > Most of them make little sense outside of a GNOME desktop. For > gnome-games you will need to build clutter which is basically a > gnome toolkit (although others might use it in the future). You > could also consider trying the unpronounceable aisleriot (solitaire, > by another name) on KDE if you want games. It's not what I want, but am looking at is from a user's perspective. > In my own case, apart from the test system I'm using at the moment, > I don't use gnome, but only a *few* gnome applications (epiphany, > evince, gcalctool, gucharmap). Getting them to build and run properly > requires "a certain amount" of the gnome packages (actually, I > looked at gucharmap the other day, I can run it with the things I've > already built for gnumeric, and gcalctool might be similar. Evince > probably doesn't need a lot more, but epiphany certainly does, and I > can't see anyone using KDE feeling any need to build another pdf > viewer or webkit-derived browser. True. OTOH, I have three pdf viewers, kpdf, xpdf, and acroread. Each has some capabilities the others don't. I also have four browsers: firefox, konqueror, seamonkey, and lynx. :) > Actually, I might try totem again > when I've upgraded one of my machines to something newer. > >> Perhaps a more thorough evaluation of the gnome organization in the book >> is needed, or at least some additional explanation in the introduction. > If you want to change it, please keep the wiki organisation in sync > with it. I wouldn't feel comfortable making changes to gnome without discussing on the list and getting agreement. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
