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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] gnome
From:       Anders Johansson <andjoh () rydsbo ! net>
Date:       2003-10-09 4:19:57
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On Thursday 09 October 2003 06.14, Franklin Maurer wrote:
> On Thursday 09 October 2003 12:02 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 October 2003 05.59, Franklin Maurer wrote:
> > > Please search the archives before you use ximian. bad things CAN and
> > > WILL happen if you ever want to use a non-ximian version of gnome.
> >
> > I am already using ximian, it works great. Please, a little less FUD if
> > you don't mind
>
> Perhaps you are among the lucky ones, there are many people whose systems
> were pretty messed up the next time they went to update their systems.
>
> Direct from ulb ...
>  Using Ximian GNOME is fine up to a point. That point tends to be when you
> decide to upgrade your entire SuSE distribution, when the differences in
> package names can cause real problems. The fact that some packages,
> especially libraries, are installed to different filesystem locations by
> Ximian can also cause some problems.

This was true for ximian 1, in my experience it's not true for ximian desktop 
2, all the gnome stuff is installed in /opt/gnome2, just as in a default SuSE 
install, I haven't so far encountered any problems with either that or 
package names in xd2. If you have any concrete examples I'd love to hear 
about it.

The only problem I've seen so far is that the PATH variable is set to 
something very limited, but that's easily fixed

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