On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30 2020, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> > On 2020/03/29 23:13, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:11:07PM +0200, Charlene Wendling wrote:
> >> > > If gnome or a subset of its apps doesn't build, then it sure can't be
> >> > > used and debugged on powerpc. Even if the full gnome desktop isn't
> >> > > usable, its apps can probably be useful.
> >>
> >> I don't see how gnome-control-center can be useful as a single application.
>
> Well Charlene mentioned running gnome on powerpc:
>
> >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:11:07PM +0200, Charlene Wendling wrote:
> >>> *Some* GNOME stuff don't work properly.
> >>>
> >>> But it's not *totally* broken [0] :)
> >>>
> >>> [0] https://bsd.network/web/statuses/102065676125440442
>
> But one can't pkg_add gnome if gnome-control-center is missing since
> it's a RUN_DEPENDS of meta/gnome,-main and x11/gnome/shell.
>
> And let me repeat another point:
>
> >> > > Instead of discussing on
> >> > > a case by case basis which app makes sense on what arch, I find it
> >> > > easier to just fix the build of everything that can be fixed.
>
> *Especially* when such discussions take time and patience, while the fix
> itself is (usually) just a CFLAGS or LDFLAGS tweak.
You missed my point.
I stated my case and as I said we agree to disagree.
Do what you want.
--
Antoine
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