HEADS UP: GNOME 2.24.2 is now available for FreeBSD

Vladimir Grebenschikov vova at fbsd.ru
Mon Jan 26 02:06:25 PST 2009


On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 00:48 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Presenting GNOME 2.24 for FreeBSD.
> 
> See http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.24/ for the general
> release notes.  On the FreeBSD front, this release introduces Fuse
> support in HAL, adds multi-CPU support to libgtop, WebKit updates, and fixes
> some long-standing seahorse and gnome-keyring bugs.  The documentation
> updates to the website are forthcoming.

Thanks a lot for your work.

> Be sure to read /usr/ports/UPDATING, and let gnome at FreeBSD.org know if
> you have any problems.

... 
   # pkg_deinstall -fO gtkmm-2.12\*
   # portupgrade -aOW
   # portupgrade -f gnome-session
...

IMHO, It is bad idea to suggest to use -W unconditionally for all users.
Just huge waste of space.

For me it easily eat 3G of space and not finished yet.

-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru


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