Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome2 release schelude:

["José Fonseca" <j_r_fonseca@yahoo.co.uk>]

I'm eager to start playing with gcc-3.1 and Gnome2. I'm not afraid of 
screwing up things because I believe that's necessary in order to progress 
(that's one of the things that made try and love Gentoo). Unfortunately 
I've a deadline for a paper submission which is closing in the next few 
days, so I've been restraining myself from messing so deeply with my 
system as I can't afford have it down until then.

But when I do, what's the best way to upgrade my gcc-2.95.3+gnome-1.4 
system to gcc-3.1+gnome-2.0 ? I know that gnome-2.0 works well 
side-by-side with a gnome 1.4 system, but regarding gcc-3.1 I've seen here 
that it's better to start from scratch. Is it so?

I really didn't want to mess up with partitions again, so is there a way 
to reinstall gentoo (or simply recompile all packages with new settings) 
in order to achieve the same effect?

Thanks,

José Fonseca


On 2002.05.28 09:50 Spider wrote:
> Okay,
> 
>    I want some input on this from the Gentoo Crowd (Thats you folks ;)
> 
>   Since we are rapidly heading for a Gnome2 release, I've been in touch
> with the Gnome2 release team, and hearing their opinion on how we should
> manage release for public avaiability.
> 
>    They would really like some extra input from us, since we have quite
> a wide variety of systems, compilers and we have for some reason gained
> a reputation for being "generally more savvy and daring than the other
> distros"
> 
> Now, we are looking at a -rc release, and its high time to start
> pounding at  http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> 
> So, we are looking to be the firs distribution with official Gnome2
> support, and if possible we'd like to have even more input from dev's on
> bugzilla, from opinions and ideas to things that are plain wrong.
>