HEADS UP: GNOME 2.24.2 is now available for FreeBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> 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.

Disk is cheap.  Adding -W makes things go faster.  When it comes to
GNOME, most people appreciate any speed improvements they can get.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
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