Re: gEDA-user: Hm...not much improvement

[al davis <ad106@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 20 September 2006 19:59, Arthur Baldwin wrote:
> Well, I tried using Yumex to install gEDA from Fedora Extras
> on a clean and fully updated FC5 machine.  What I ended up
> with is a much less integrated collection of useless tools
> than I did with the "recompiler installer" which I said
> before was a "nightmare".  No menu items were added to my KDE
> desktop at all.  Paths were not added to any desktop startup
> files.  And so nothing works like it should.  Perhaps I
> missed a critical rpm file of some kind...but I used the
> search term "geda" without any case sensitivity to search for
> uninstalled items with that term anywhere in the package name
> or description.  Does anyone besides me see a problem here?

Yes, but not ours..

gEDA can know nothing about KDE, Fedora, or Yumex.  It must be 
designed for portability, without knowledge of specific 
systems.

The problem lies in the .rpm package.  You should contact the 
packager and file a bug report there.

It is common for general packages to need customization to fit a 
particular environment.  That is the purpose of the 
distribution specific packages, for Fedora, Ubuntu, and so on.  
They do that for you.

The KDE menu is really personal.  Different people have 
different ideas on what belongs there.  


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