Problems

[Andrew Grillet]

Hi

I have done a CVSup to fetch ports and stable over a fresh install of 
FreeBSD 4.8.

When building Gnome (2.4.0) I had problems with gstreamer requiring an 
old version of gnomeui. 2.00 instead of 2.4. 

I patched the makefile for gstreamer and gstreamer-plugins, to version 
2.4.0 and it now gnome compiles OK (subject to having enough disk space 
:-)

BUT what I want to know is 

WHY IN GODS NAME DO I HAVE TO SPEND TWO DAYS COMPILING AUDIO STUFF FOR A 
MACHINE WITH NO SOUND HARDWARE? 

Surely the default should be that there is no sound support - who needs 
sound in a business environment? Or do people think it deters their 
employees surfing porn sites?

I think there is a more general problem here: Surely Gnome should not be 
dependent on things like mozilla - it should integrate them if they are 
present, but if they aren't. it should not fetch them and compile them 
- many of us use different applications, or have no need of an 
equivalent application on machines used for a specific purpose. It is 
annoying to find the Gui hauls in every application known to the 
developers. (If its any consellation - I have had the same moan at the 
KDE team several times :-)

regards

Andrew



regards

Andrew