Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Mail triage, admin. Tried some more to get jhbuild
to build Gnome 3.0 on SLED11-SP1 - lots of problems going beyond
the libtool one. The most evil problem is a bogus
dependency chain of doom: everything requires gvfs which
requires gnome-disk-utility (uh?) which requires udisks
(which requires lots of rather recent pieces). Suffered
with the retarded setup of 'device-mapper', atasmart,
build-your-own udev, latest avahi-ui etc.. Of course - I
had no desire to do anything clever with my disks at all.
Bad. Interestingly this mirrors some acute madness and
package splitting required for MeeGo in exactly this area.
Notable examples would be device-mapper's habit of trying to
force root user ownership, and gnome-disk-utility's wonderful
hard-coding of system paths in Makefiles, urgh:
udisks-device-glue.h: /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.UDisks.Device.xml
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Advisory call with Stormy & co. Martin over in
the evening with spare ATX PSU, played printing pieces and
catching up at some length.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
