Upcoming Gnome Release

Nick Hudson nhudson at lunar-linux.org
Fri Mar 19 11:38:51 GMT 2004


that can be solved easy by moving gnumeric2 to /opt/lunar/gnumeric just
like we do with firefox or thunderbird.

Nick


On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 10:10 -0600, Terry Chan wrote:

> Nick,
> 
> Your moving all of gnome back to /usr still does NOT solve the problem of
> overlapping gnome modules.  Example:  gnumeric and gnumeric2.  gnuemeric's
> binary is /usr/bin/gnumeric and gnumeric2 used to be
> /opt/lunar/gnome/2.4/bin/gnumeric.  Guess what?  That won't work anymore
> and I still use gnumeric not gnumeric2 (as does gnucash still uses gnumeric).
> 
> Terry Chan
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:28:12AM -0600, Nick Hudson wrote:
> > I wanted to get everyones thoughts about something here just so that I
> > can cover every angle with this.  With the upcoming Gnome 2.6 release I
> > have moved everything back to /usr from /opt/lunar/gnome for those who
> > dont know.  Now there have been problems with some modules when moved
> > from /opt to /usr not compiling because its looking for something that
> > was in /opt/lunar/gnome/ but is not in /usr.  The only way that I can
> > found to solve any issues with upgrading is to remove
> > the /opt/lunar/gnome directory completly then update all the Gnome
> > modules.  If the directory is removed then things will build just fine
> > with no problems. 
> > 
> > Now only problem with that is do we delete an entire directory off of
> > everyones computer??  How should this be handled??  I want to try to
> > keep the move as low key as possible.  Only way I can see this working
> > is if we delete the entire /opt/lunar/gnome directory is to manually
> > force and update of every module that was installed to that directory,
> > so that we make sure that all the modules him/her had installed
> > to /opt/lunar/gnome will get recompiled into /usr.  Everyones ideas and
> > thoughts on this would be helpful and appreciated.  
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Nick
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