Which distribution for gnome2?

[Michal Varga]

On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 14:21 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On 8/25/11 8:16 PM, Open Slate Project wrote:
> > Once upon a time it was necessary to install FreeBSD with full userland sources in order to install gnome. Is this still true, or can "user" -- binaries and doc only -- be used?
> 
> I don't think anything in the core GNOME requires src anymore.  There
> may be some deep dependencies that do, though.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 

I think OP *might* be referring to FUSE kernel modules, whose once upon
a time required kernel sources to be present. That said, being kernel
modules, my guess is be that the situation is actually still the same
(too-lazy-to-check syndrome reporting in).

FUSE is an optional dependency for, ummm... devel/gvfs, mostly to get a
[pretty flaky and dangerous] NTFS read/write support, and the FUSE (the
one we keep in ports) is a long time unmaintained mess that no sane
person who values his data should be using anyway. As far as I remember,
it defaults to off.

m.

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