update of GNOME ports for non-GNOME users

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue Apr 20 15:47:01 GMT 2004


On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 11:21, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm not a gnome user. That is to say that I've never
> installed GNOME myself. However, I use a number of programs
> that depends on gnome libraries or components (USE_GNOME or
> WANT_GNOME set to yes in their Makefiles). The two that come
> to my mind now are gaim (net/gaim) and dia (/graphics/dia).
> But I may have others around.
> 
> Upon trying to upgrade gaim to 0.76_1, portupgrade needs to
> update glib to glib-2.0.400 (glib-2.4.0) and then says that
> if I'm not following the instructions outlined in faq26 I
> should cancel the upgrade. So I did.
> 
> My question is then: should I follow faq26 and run the
> gnome update script? I don't want to end up with GNOME
> installed on my machine. Would the script only update
> installed components and libraries?

You can use the script.

Joe

> 
> Thank in advance for any suggestion or clarification,
> 
> Fernan
> 
> PS: please CC me since I'm not subscribed to the list
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