Building garnome-2.8.2

[Derick Centeno]

I've been off this list awhile so I didn't quite catch what preceded
this but I did go to the garnome website and reviewed their FAQ page.
I recommend that one consider carefully what they clearly state in 1.1
and 1.2.  The developers point out that Garnome is NOT "a package based
setup" which means that the software provided by TerraSoft Solutions CAN
be overwritten AND that users will be left to fend for themselves to
rebuild the desktop and ALL the other programs which TerraSoft Solutions
built into YDL 4.0 specifically for Mac and other PPC hardware.  The
developers of Garnome also point out that "configuration files may be
affected".

Although there are a few undaunted and highly skilled group of souls to
whom this prospect won't matter there are many, many more who use this
list who marvel that they can use Linux on a PPC at all.  In short, many
more will be railing obscenities at the heavens regarding what happened
to their installation and look for whose head they can skewer on a pike.
A nice little tradition of civilized Europe during the Middle Ages for
those who have forgotten.

Considering that even yum won't work under the conditions warned about,
"All of your configuration will be overwritten, all of your settings
could vanish, all of the development libraries will be installed and you
will destroy any knowledge your packaging software (RPM, dpkg, etc) has
about your setup.", I really, really have to question why suggest a user
undergo this process at all.

I won't go so far to suggest that one "love" the YDL desktop and
associated packages, but building on top of it, i.e. adding to it via
yum is less difficult than starting completely cold WITHOUT yum's help,
and having to figure out for oneself which software dependencies and
related software are required for the PPC hardware configuration one
actually uses.


On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 22:30, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> (1) Go fetch the software
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> 	http://cipherfunk.org/garnome/
> 
> I chose the "stable" version, garnome-2.8.2
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> If you like what you see, your next exercise is to learn how to modify
> the GNOME menus and panels so you can get back all the menu and panel
> items that Terrasoft originally set up for you.
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> Have fun.
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> 
> -Joseph
-- 
Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
Only one feat is possible -- not to have run away."
--Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)

Gitanjali 35:
Where the Mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where Knowledge is Free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments 
by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the Depth of Truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards Perfection;
Where the Clear Stream of Reason has not lost its way into the dreary
desert sand of dead habit;
Where the Mind is led forward by Thee into Ever-Widening Thought 
And Action --
Into That Heaven of Freedom, My Father, let my country awake.

by Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali (Song Offerings): A Collection of
Prose Translations Made by the Author from the Original Bengali, intro.
by W. B. Yeats (London: MacMillan, 1913): 27-28. PR 6039 A2G6 1913
Robarts Library

Mitakuye Oyasin -- A Lakota Sioux prayer meaning,"We are all related."