HEADS UP: GNOME 2.26 available for FreeBSD

Alexander Nedotsukov bland at bbnest.net
Wed Apr 22 04:28:53 UTC 2009


On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:19:30 +0400 (MSD), Dmitry Morozovsky
<marck at rinet.ru>
wrote:
> 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.

What do you propose to write in the release notes which could help Apache
1.3+ lovers?
And may I in turn quote a bit of another release notes:

http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement1.3.html

"We strongly recommend that users of all earlier versions, including 1.3
family release, upgrade to to the current 2.2 version as soon as possible."

:-^)




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