HEADS UP: GNOME desktop users

Doug Barton DougB at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 16 15:06:22 PDT 2003


On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> Well, a belated HEADS UP, anyway.  For a week or so now, a new make
> option has existed to help keep people from overwriting their GNOME
> desktop version when installing certain ports.  This option is called
> GNOME_DESKTOP_VERSION (similar to XFREE86_VERSION).  It accepts one of
> two values: 1 or 2.  If you want to or are using the GNOME 2 desktop,
> you should add:
>
> GNOME_DESKTOP_VERSION=	2

I think this is a good idea, I just have one suggestion. Can you set a
default value for this, which the user can override (similar to
XFREE86_VERSION as you pointed out)? I think that will reduce the
foot-shooting possibilities down the road....

Doug

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