On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:31:40 +0100, daz wrote : > I know Frederic Crozat is on vacation/guadec next week, however, if any > other cooker developers that work on gnome are floating around, please > respond. > > I was wondering why there isnt a parrallel gnome1.4/gnome2 installation > like there is for kde2/kde3? kde3 installes in /opt, gnome2 replaces > crucial gnome1.4 files, like 'gnome-panel', 'gnome-session', etc. Whas > this just overlooked, or is it intentional? If it was intentional, can > it be changed? I like testing gnome2, but its not ready for regular use > and its nice to be able to go back to gnome1.4 with out having to spend > an hour uninstalling, then reinstalling stuff.
I'm in vacations but I can respond :)) GNOME 2 libraries are parallel installable against GNOME 1.4 librairies => you can still use GNOME 1 applications in GNOME 2 environments (ie evolution, ...) GNOME 2 core applications (nautilus, gnome-panel, ...) are not parallel installable (by design) and I will not use different prefix than /usr. Why ? Because this is cooker :)) You want to live at the bleeding edge ? Then go ;) Seriously, this would add too much work for almost no real pro. And since we intent to remove GNOME 1.4 (core, not librairies) for next release, I want this to be done as early as possible.. If you want to test GNOME 2, I suggest you use a second computer or use a chrooted environment.. -- Fr�d�ric Crozat MandrakeSoft
