For FreeBSD 4.x users..

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sun Apr 22 20:17:57 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 15:01 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> Hello FreeBSD 4.x users,
> 
> Recently, ahze has shown me a blog[1] that someone is getting GNOME 2.x  
> works on FreeBSD 4.x. I thought why not to post in here too. If one of you  
> are insteresting to get it works better on FreeBSD 4.x too, you can try to  
> ask him (person that who wrote this blog[1]) if you can work with him to  
> make a better guide.
> 
> [1]  
> http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/2007/04/upgrading-gnome-on-freebsd-4x.html
> 
> NOTE: We will not put any of FreeBSD 4.x fix in ports tree, so this guide  
> is the only left that you have.

Following these steps will have interesting effects on the plist, so
don't expect good packages, or clean uninstallations.  Additionally,
don't expect full GNOME functionality.  HAL is so ingrained in GNOME
now, there will be some things that just don't work without it.

Joe 

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