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>> I've found that the recent EINA library release for e17 has broken just |
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>> about everything. |
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>> Gentoo's overlay system should be simple enough to modify however after |
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>> reading the fine manual I am no closer to understanding the appropriate |
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>> course of action to create eina as a dependency in the overlay (I've bugged |
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>> vapier@g.o to no avail) |
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> Mike is usually pretty quick with these things. |
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"Mike"?!, What, Vapier's formal name is "Mike"? |
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Back to important stuff, is the overlay in good shape (apart from |
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this specific problem)? For example, is it compatible with Portage's |
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new requirements for Manifest? |
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Also, why are the snapshot ebuilds so horribly outdated? Is it because |
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Vapier is too busy to update them or because he just thinks that e17 |
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is like Mplayer, a project where the developers actually take care to |
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keep the svn code in good shape (only committing working code)? |
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My computer has some bugs*. I am trying Xfce instead of e17 to see if |
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the bugs were e17's fault, but the bugs continue. I wonder if I should |
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go back to e17 |
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1) It is *very* fast and *very* lightweight (even when compared to Xfce) |
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2) It is vastly configurable and does things Xfce does not (like, for |
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a quick example, remembering per-window configuration, fine tuning |
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window borders, and even making windows borderless) |
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but |
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1) It is unreleased; users have to compile code from svn. |
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2) Outputs a truckload of text to .xsession-errors. Does it mean that |
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the code is full of little problems that cause warnings? Xfce, in |
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comparison, only outputs two "assertion failed"s |
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3) Does not seem to have a Trash Bin or a System tray. I care little |
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about these, though (and I imagine there are plugins to provide them, |
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but I didn't bother to search). |
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Do you think a user who expects a reasonably stable and bug-free |
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environment (say, a user who accepts the latest Ubuntu, instead of |
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demanding the stability of Debian stable) can rely on e17? |
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*Regarding my bugs, they are mostly X-related. When I have time I will |
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dive in xorg.conf documentation. Also, maybe they are related to the |
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fact that some of my X-related packages may have been built with |
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different USE flags (I have disabled the IPv6 USE flag at some point). |
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I will recompile them all, either when Gentoo updates Xorg (which, by |
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the way, is taking a long time) or when Gentoo updates GCC (which is |
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also taking a very long time. I hope that when Debian Stable is |
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released with GCC 4.3, it will motivate Gentoo to declare GCC 4.3.2 |
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stable). |
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