On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 08:29 -0600, Peter Van Lone wrote: > On 2/26/07, Per Nystrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like a lot of the changes to evo that I've seen in 2.8.3. I might > > even try to run 2.9.x if I can find SRPMs that compile on my box before > > resorting to a downgrade. But the bottom line is I need to be able to > > do my day-to-day work also, and the problem I'm having in 2.8.3 is > > killing my productivity. > > > > I am in a similar situation as Per ... I'm using what came with my > distro (in this case SLED 10 and evo 2.6.0. > > I have tried to update to a later version, but find myself caught in > dependency hell when I do so. And, I really don't know how to go about > compiling my own from source. > > Obviously I need to learn how to do that ... but just as obviously (to > me, anyway) the maintainers of the SLED distro need to keep evo > (especially as it is so broken) much more up to date.
Really, though, this is an issue between you and your distro. Not much that the Evo team can do about this. I do agree that it's too bad that Evo is so heavily dependent on Gnome, making it extremely difficult to compile independently. On the other hand, one can only assume that if it weren't, Evo would have to reinvent all the code that's being provided by Gnome--which would be even worse in every other way (IMO). I guess all we can do is urge the Evo team to be thoughtful about how they integrate Evo into the desktop. If you want to build things for yourself the simplest way is to use GARNOME. It will rebuild the entirety of the Gnome desktop from source, handling all the downloads, ordering, etc. You can install it somewhere completely different (I use /opt/gnome) so that it won't have any impact on your distro's packaging. Then you can use that version of Gnome in its entirety (by modifying your local desktop configuration), or just use Evo from that area. It takes a long time to build, but that's computer time and not your time spent tracking down/installing dependencies, messing with autoconf setup, etc. etc. http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/ _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
