Re: Suse 10.3 and DVD::RIP

Ron Gibson wrote:
Well I've forgotten some aspects of this but recall enough to know it's
a PITA, especially compiling Gnome. This is why Pat dropped it from
Slack - He was having to spend too much time sorting out the conflicts
that arise.

As I said, I click on things and that is it. I do not care how much of
extra software must be installed for it. So what if I have all of KDE or
GNOME installed. It is not that I am actualy running it (Yes, I have
both installed)
All it takes up is diskspace.

Some Gnome apps just won't run under KDE without almost the entire Gnome
base installed anyway like Evolution. So if you must have Evolution it
becomes sort of pointless to have KDE as you might as well install
all of Gnome.

Yep.

In the case of DVD::RIP it won't run or compile unless
almost all of the Gnome base is present.

Indeed.

Further complicating the problem
as at some point it will become a guessing game as to what you need to
install.

And here you make a HUGE mistake. I do not try to figure out anything. I
let openSUSEs YaST do that for me. I click on the 1-Install of DVD::RIP
and I am done.

Gnome is not as modular as KDE and where a compilation might
tell you missing XYZ you find that in order to install XYZ you have to
install a whole bunch of other stuff.

Nice to know, but irrelevant.

Going in the other direction it generally takes less core KDE support to
get stuff that works with KDE to run in Gnome. That's why konsole and
kate have a small footprint and will cause no problems.

Equaly nice to know and equaly irrelevant.

Eventually you can sort out the problems encountered but the time
involved to do so is excessive and frankly it becomes easier to just
install another distro with Gnome only. Slack is not the only distro to
feel the effects of the fork like divergence of Gnome. For Suse there is
a KDE install CD and a Gnome install CD. There is Ununtu and Kubuntu and
so on...

And again you are wrong. It could be a pain on many distributions. It
isn't on openSUSE. 1-Click install and you are set (most of the time)

I really wish Gnome would not insist on this approach. There is no
reason for them to create a schism where one need not exist.

As I do not do anything, except install the software I want, I do not
have an issue with it.

houghi
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| Artist : Jimi Hendrix
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