[gobolinux-users] GNOME on GoboLinux

[Jonas Karlsson]

2007/6/22, MLA-Gobo <mla-gobo at forrussia.org>:
> On Friday 22 June 2007 10:05, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> > Is there any interest in running the GNOME Desktop Environment (like
> > version 2.18) on GoboLinux?
>     The problem (as far as I understand it; please correct me if I'm wrong)
> is
> that GNOME is a hopeless mass of interdependencies that has a very fragile
> compile sequence. It's not that no one is interested in packaging GNOME,
> it's
> just very, very difficult to do so.
>     I can think of two attempts within recent memory of people attempting to
> get GNOME working, so I'm sure someone will pipe up with the specific
> problems.

The problem isn't complicated interdependencies, but that some gnome
apps needs thd same prefix and doesn't play well with the gobolinux
layout.
Then there's problems like gconf, into which directory almost all
gnome apps want to put their config xml files. To this particular
problem I have an idea for a solution, just that I haven't had the
time, but there are more, similar problems (layout assumptions made by
the gnome devs) with other gnome apps.

-- 
/Jonas