On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:18:50 -0800
Marshall Rose <mrose+mtr.netnews@dbc.mtview.ca.us> wrote:

> hi. maybe i'm overthinking this, but i could use some guidance on using pkgsrc
> to get the "latest gnome available in pkgsrc".
> 
> the reason i ask this is that there are a couple packages like
>     
>     sysutils/gnome-vfs
>     sysutils/gnome-vfs2
>     
> that conflict.  let's say i'm building a desktop system from scratch,
> which packages should i build in order to get the set of dependencies,
> etc., for the latest gnome that netbsd pkgsrc has to offer?

If you want a full gnome desktop, install meta-pkgs/gnome. The gnome2 desktop
itself is not yet packaged entirely, and some problems still exist with the
existing packages. So, for the moment, go with gnome 1.4. (or kde3 ;)

HTH

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Julio Merino (http://jmmv.dyndns.org/) <jmmv@menta.net>