gnome 2.8

arenaweb · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:25 am Post subject:

i don't understand people crying for 2.8, you could have tested 2.8rc1 for weeks

now sit down and wait for the last ebuild and the whole thing getting unmasked

syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

arenaweb-

some don't care to completely bork their system with release candidates. I am one of these people(on my PRIME system anyway). id rather be a little behind the times and have my data not explode as if i'd strapped C4 to it.

arenaweb · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:38 am Post subject:

you might consider waiting for the bugfix releases, 2.8.4 could be running smooth

NME · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:03 pm Post subject: Re: ah

basse1989 · n00b Joined: 17 Jun 2004 Posts: 35 Location: Sweden

Who is in charge of the GNOME 2.8 .ebuild making?
If you are out there, how many .ebuilds are left to make?
Will it take until tomorrow? Anyone?
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oneguynick · n00b Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Shreveport LA

Create the ebuilds for them and submit! If you want a pretty much there run bmg 2.7.9

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lusken · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 88

I sure hope they don't waste their time reading the forums, but consentrate on making the ebuilds ;-)

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Just have patience. I'd rather have a bug-free ebuild, than a quick'n'dirty one..

_cookie · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Ontario

I am exicted, as I get my new hard drive soon (my old SATA one died in... go figure; windowsxp) so once i get that, i'll be running gentoo ... yay

can't wait to try out gnome2.8 and BMP

seltrus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 102

I don't believe anyone is "crying" about gnome 2.8. Everyone knows we could be running RCs but some of us don't think that it is a good tradeoff. I have in the past from BMG, but I had problems later with interwoven versions of BMG gnome and portage gnome.

I, like others, am highly anticipating the gnome 2.8 release, but I understand that Foser and company have lots of work to do. Hats off to the dev team.

Mystilleef · Guru Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 561 Location: Earth

Are they short on staff? I wouldn't mind pitching in.
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MighMoS · Guru Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 416 Location: @ ~

Looking at the cvs logs it appears that they're just resolving dependencies now, so I'm guessing it'll be out by 2004-9-20...(Monday)
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mmealman · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 348 Location: Florida

Big updates like this always take a bit of time to push out. They have to work out all the deps which is a real PITA.

Can't wait to see the changes in 2.8. Will evolution still be a seperate package though or will the 2.0 version just come in one of the gnome packages?

LJ · Apprentice Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Posts: 156

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syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

build your own from the bmg 2.7.9s , just rename the ebuild fra 2.7.9, to 2.8, and also use the --pretend and modify all dependencies the same way(one would be wise to use the portage overlay)

also, download all the tarballz to distfiles and go for it.

it works, i have done it.

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for all you KDEers out their, if you have any interest in gnome2.8, download ubuntu linux, it's much faster that compiling gnome2.8 yourself and will give you a nive taste of it.

IF THEIR WERE ENOUGH PEOPLE who wanted this, i could just tarball up a full ubuntu install and post a torrent of it, but i would like to see at least 10 people interested b4 i did that.

mahir · l33t Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Posts: 725 Location: London

can you link me to the 2.7.9 ebuilds please???
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basse1989 · n00b Joined: 17 Jun 2004 Posts: 35 Location: Sweden

I'm so excited about GNOME 2.8 that i think I'm going to be temp. banned for my constant emerge syncing ;-)

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dioxmat · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:48 am Post subject:

Hypnos · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 2:47 am Post subject:

If GNOME stops working, esp. Evolution, I think I would cry -- I run my life through there. Will wait for keymasking.
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enzobelmont · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 5:09 am Post subject:

anybody knows why kde ebuilds are so fast to be included in portage and gnome not???

in theory gnome is smaller than kde...

by the way.. i love gnome... much more than kde.

sorry my english... :wink:

Gandalf the White · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 5:13 am Post subject:

AFAIK this was a very big release with lots of new packages and new things, so the dependencies have changed alot since 2.6, and this is why it is hardmasked, util the devs can make sure they are accounting for the dependencies.