[GRASS-dev] freetype on gentoo

[Sampson, David]

These types of problems and needing to compile GRASS from scratch all the time has forced me to slowly slip back to the RH world ..... This time FC5... Nice RPM support.

Would be great is there was more enthusiasm for GRASS on GENTOO.

I started a mailing list that in retrospec failed miserably due to such a small group of users....

http://cemml.carleton.ca/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-grass

Please keep the world updated in GENTOO and GRASS becomes a reliable option...  Too bad there was not an IDIOTS method of creating emerge files... Like a simple point and click GUI so that they would be easily maintained.

Maybe scripting some SQL for maintence.... Oh well...

Cheers 

-----Original Message-----
From: grass-dev-bounces at grass.itc.it [mailto:grass-dev-bounces at grass.itc.it] On Behalf Of Maris Nartišs
Sent: August 25, 2006 02:44
To: grass-dev at grass.itc.it
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] freetype on gentoo

Hi,

currently GRASS on Gentoo is almost unmaintained. First GRASS ebuild for 5.7/6.0 was made by me. Now ebuilds are submitted by community trough bugzilla system, but current maintainer (nerdboy) is not very intrested in GIS (and doesn't know OS GIS related problems) and strictly follows Gentoo guidelines - I had problems with getting simple GRASS related fixes to ebuild accepted. :( I don't think that there will somebody push opendwg ebuild and related grass flag.

What is more important for me - currently emerging GRASS can fail, but user will get no notification about this using current ebuild. See more:  
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass-dev/2006-August/025129.html "Checking for compilation errors" 

Maris.

On Thursday 24 August 2006 16:56, Stefán István wrote:
>
> Does anyone know who makes the Grass Gentoo ebuild?
>
> Thanks,
> Istvan


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