On 16:16 Sun 08 Feb , Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > It would appear that on Feb 6, sda did say: > > > welcome to checkout for openSUSE: > > forum > > http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/388815-enlightenment-dr-16-dr-17-a.html > > wiki (base is broken now unfortunately) > > http://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Enlightenment_for_openSUSE > > > > suppose that OBS (OpenSUSE Build System) have all required packages to > > begin with. > > > Thank you for the links... > > Do I understand the info in the 2nd link correctly that if I do a: > > >sudo zypper ar >"http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/dmitry_serpokryl:/Enlightenment-cvs-core-metapackage/openSUSE_11.0"; > Enlightenment
> > Then simply be able to use zipper to install E17 AND update my > installed E16 without future "zipper updates" breaking them??? > sure. right after you can use YaST package manager to view and install all you wish or >sudo zypper se -r Enlightenment will show all available content of a new repo. if you have no issues with openSUSE redirector, then: >sudo zypper ar >"http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dmitry_serpokryl:/Enlightenment-cvs-core-metapackage/openSUSE_11.0/"; > Enlightenment will do the trick and resolve your local mirror as well. > And do I also understand that after I did the above, doing a: > zipper search enlightenment > or > zipper search e16 > or > zipper search e17 > would find more good "e" stuff than it finds now?? > yep. > And about the links on the first site that talk about one click > installs... I'd me much happier adding these sites as zypper repos and > let ONE package manager handle any/all dependency issues. But I'm not > so sure what would happen if I did for example an: > > sudo zypper ar > http://opensuse.ca.unixheads.org/repositories/X11:/Enlightenment/openSUSE_11.0/X11:Enlightenment.repo > > the link above unfortunately won't give you latest "E-svn" > Or perhaps an: > > sudo zypper ar > "http://opensuse.ca.unixheads.org/repositories/X11:/Enlightenment/openSUSE_11.0/X11:Enlightenment.repo"; > Enlightenment > the same is here... the "official" repo is heavily outdated and probably should be omitted. > One thing though. I noticed a lot of attention being given on those > links to booting e from a guilogin manager.... PLEASE tell me that > there aren't any files I might zipper from these sites that could maybe > break my *chosen method of booting to a console login and then as a user > running startx from a script that first copies my selected xinitrc file > to ~/.xinitrc??? > > * { I NEVER want to see ANY gui till I ask for it. > And that goes triple for the login screen. } > > Thanks again! > you're the boss. you can boot into "init 3" or just turn off all display managers for "init 5" and use proven "startx": chkconfig xdm off chkconfig entrance off chkconfig earlyxdm off chkconfig gdm off > > -- > | ~^~ ~^~ > | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook > | ^ J(tWdy)P > | \___/ <<[email protected]>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to > build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local > resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and > Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
