I was looking at what remains to be tagged. People will know that I do not believe in desktop environments, but I also put Wayne's gnome-3 stuff into the book because that seemed like the right thing to do. Since then, a lot of it has dropped out, and Fernando has done a good job in keeping the rest of it up to date. But at the moment he is still building a 7.7 system, and Bruce seems keen to get 7.7 out. Also, I do not think that we should rely on individual editors - there have been enough errors in my own commits for me to prefer that other people test the things I have touched before we release, and I am sure that other editors have a similar wish for other people to test what they changed.
For myself, the only parts of gnome which I still build are gucharmap (there are no alternatives) and evince (now a PITA to use, but it works where other non-QT PDF viewers fail). But I cannot tag even those, because I omit recommended dependencies (in particular, gobject introspection, and also vala if that gets pulled in). So, I took a look at what I would have to reinstate/create scripts for. It seems to me that there are many weirdnesses in the current deps, and there are a few applications which I would not build even if you paid me money (cheese - I have no suitable camera, file-roller (I thought it was unuseful - no, that was not the phrase I originally wrote), gnome-nettool (too many deps I don't need), network-manager-applet (all my 7.7 boxes hav wired ethernet). But I also remember that totem - after Fernando fixed the grilo plugins - looked like something I might want to use in the future, so I kept looking... On the face of it, gnome is all gtk+-3. But (trying to minimise what needs to be built), avahi appears to be needed for (at least) webkitgtk+-2.6, and appears to need both gtk+-3 and gtk+-2. And then gnome needs two different versions of webkitgtk+ (2.4.8 for yelp, 2.6.5 for epiphany). At that point I decided that I was in no hurry to reacquaint myself with this can of worms. So, this is first of all a note to Bruce that there are some messy things still to be tagged before we are ready for 7.7, and second a question whether anybody actually cares enough about gnome to test it ? I'm not especially keen on dropping things, and I'm particularly grateful to Fernando for what he has done to keep evince and gucharmap buildable, but is it time to belatedly join Slackware in saying "enough is enough" ? ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
