Suggestion for installation instructions

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:32 +0800, Volker Stolz wrote:
> Hi guys, I just walked a friend through a fresh FreeBSD 6.2 and GNOME  
> installation.
> 
> May I suggest to add a note that after setting gnome_enable="YES" in  
> rc.conf as per http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1 you  
> need to invoke the startup-script as root?
> And rephrase "This will enable services such as GDM, HAL, D-BUS, and  
> Avahi" to "...on subsequent system startups" (sounds awful, but will  
> do and is precise). This is not obvious to people new to BSD.
> 
> I strongly suggest to move the gnome_enable bit in front of the  
> section on "Make GNOME 2.18 start when X starts."

It would be great if you could through all of these ideas into some
patches, and send them on.  I'll look at getting them committed.
Thanks.

Joe

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