I'm now ready to begin merging Wayne's changes for gnome-3 into the book. This will take a long time - about 180+ packages will be changed or added, and about 18 will be retired. During this, there will probably be some (transient) breakage:
(i.) I'll be merging one package at a time. During this, whenever a link stops the book rendering (because it isn't in the book at this time) I'll comment it out and replace it by plain text, so you might see dependencies such as 'fubar-3.2.1' instead of a link. I'll fix these up later, mostly at the end of the process. (ii.) Where links do render, they may point to an inappropriate older version (until I update that package too). If you don't build gnome packages, this will hopefully not affect you. If you are building gnome-2, I've put a copy of the current book (with a couple of seds to add gnome2 into the Version on each page - first sed didn't quite do what I expected, so probably I've put an occasional 'gnome2' elsewhere in the html!) at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/blfs-book-gnome2-2012-01-20/ or you can download a copy from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/blfs-book-gnome2-2012-01-20.tar.bz2 People who are building gnome-3 should continue to check Wayne's book at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~wblaszcz/blfs-book-xsl/ for the gnome-3 parts, as well as keeping an eye on the svn book. I'll reply to this mail with some notes on the gnome-3 dependencies and versions. I'll begin by moving some packages which the book used to imply were required for a good experience with gnumeric and abiword into a new chapter, and then update them for current versions (I was building these up to December and on LFS-7.0 : turns out they don't affect my usage of abiword or gnumeric, although they were linked in. Your usage may be different. I regard these legacy packages as "heading for retirement". Similarly, until December I used gnome-media to provide my volume control. None of the possible replacements are a good match for all the functionality (volumecontrol works but is ugly, gvolwheel works but only as a volumecontrol (no unmute), the pulse tool (pavucontrol) requires pulse and I haven't yet managed to get pulse to work outside of gnome. So temporarily, gnome-media moves into the audio section and gains external links to volumecontrol and gvolwheel - I hope to be able to revisit volume controls / mixers in the spring, perhaps something like we have in 'Other Programming Tools' pointing to the external sites and listing dependencies / functionality. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
