HEADS UP: GNOME 2.26 available for FreeBSD

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

JMC> > JMC> > Hmm, so currently there is no way to install gnome2 without requiring apache22?
JMC> > JMC> 
JMC> > JMC> Correct.  You could, of course, go through the meta-port, and remove
JMC> > JMC> gnome-user-share on your own (i.e. build your own customized meta-port).
JMC> > 
JMC> > Well, would you object to the following quick fix?
JMC> 
JMC> Actually, I have always shied away from such things.  We regularly get
JMC> requests to change the meta-port, but we long ago took the philosophy to
JMC> keep the Desktop meta-port as close to the official set of GNOME Desktop
JMC> components as possible.  If we add an option for this, then we slide
JMC> down the slope of making everything optional.
JMC> 
JMC> In the past I've simply prompted people to create their own local
JMC> meta-ports, or install x11/gnome2-lite (no user-share there), then build
JMC> on that for what they need.

Well, then I suppose we should at least say something about this in release 
notes, because in 7.2 one of *major* desktop application sets conflicts with 
one of the *widest* server component.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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