Re: gEDA-user: Usability issues of gEDA + PCB

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxx>]

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>> Would it be possible to do the following changes to increase usability?
>> 1) Merge PCB into gEDA so it gets installed all at once. If installing
>>    PCB is an issue, add --disable-pcb into ./configure
>> 2) Make the install process one ./configure && make && make install if
>>    possible. Installing gEDA fresh always takes me like 1-2 days 
>> because
>>    it's like 20 libraries where you have to guess the versions 
>> correctly
>>    and if you fail, you have to retry etc.
>
>IMHO 2) should be top priority, followed by 1). I would be willing to 
>invest some time in achieving this goal, but since it touches a lot of 
>packages, this should be discussed before it is done.
>

	Yeah, I would hate see duplicated effort. 

	From my experience (and as others have pointed out), Stuart's
installer already handles this.  More experienced users can do the install
themselves, but Stuart's installer should pretty much addresses this on
modern Linux systems.  Is it missing something?

								-Ales