gEDA-user: Re: PCB a bad name ?

["Kai-Martin Knaak" <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:24:33 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote:

> As a rank newbie to the gEDA suite, I'd like to weigh in on this.  I
> downloaded the ISO image install of gEDA, and it went incredibly smoothly
> for me.

The install wasn't all that smooth for me. Maybe it would have been, if I
had allowed the installer to build all the libs the config script could
not find. But I was afraid, this would interfere with the libs already
installed and the Debian package management would go out of sync. The
config script diagnosed some libs to be missing although they were present
and only the *.h files needed to be installed. This included most of the
Xwindows libs. If I had allowed the installer to introduce his own
versions to /usr/local/ below the radar of the package manager, subtle
version conflicts might lead to "interesting" Xwindows errors. 

Installation took quite some time too --- A few hours on my 900 MHz laptop. 


>  I thought that bundling it all was a clever idea, because I've
> gone to dependency hell many times in my dealings with Linux.

IMHO it might be more economical to focus on the main stream way of open
source software distribution. Build packages that integrate into the
packaging management of the widespread distributions. Yes, I am aware, that
the geda tools are regularily supported by Debian. How about deb and rpm
packages on the geda website?

---<(kaimartin)>---
-- 
Kai-Martin Knaak
http://lilalaser.de/blog



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