HEADS UP: GNOME desktop users

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 18:06, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > Well, a belated HEADS UP, anyway.  For a week or so now, a new make
> > option has existed to help keep people from overwriting their GNOME
> > desktop version when installing certain ports.  This option is called
> > GNOME_DESKTOP_VERSION (similar to XFREE86_VERSION).  It accepts one of
> > two values: 1 or 2.  If you want to or are using the GNOME 2 desktop,
> > you should add:
> >
> > GNOME_DESKTOP_VERSION=	2
> 
> I think this is a good idea, I just have one suggestion. Can you set a
> default value for this, which the user can override (similar to
> XFREE86_VERSION as you pointed out)? I think that will reduce the
> foot-shooting possibilities down the road....

We do set a default value that's auto-selected based on what's currently
installed.  Checkout bsd.gnome.mk for more details.

Joe

> 
> Doug
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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