On 11/01/2016 12:10 AM, Simon Lees wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/01/2016 08:32 AM, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> I have been (and still am) running e18 without problems on Xubuntu 15.10
>> but I just upgraded a system to 16.04 and found that the only packaged
>> version in the repos was e17!
>>
>> Does anyone know why this has gone backwards?
>>
>> I know I should be using e20, but the PPA doesn't support 16.04 yet.
>>
>> ///Peter
>>
> 
> Well were now at 21.3, Ubuntu doesn't have an active community
> maintainer, for enlightenment, 

Maybe when I retire (2018) I can look at that. Problem is, I'm a *user*
of Enlightenment: I have to have a fully-working system, not an
experimental one. Right now e18 has been fairly solid.

But the real puzzle is why Xenial went retrograde and used e17 instead
of e18. I posted the same message to the xubuntu list but no reply so far.

> if you really want to use enlightenment
> on ubuntu its probably best to build efl and it yourself, with some
> package merges the number of things you need to build now is quite small.

I've never had any luck building systems that big. Downloading a GNU
utility and typing ./configure;make;make install usually works, but with
larger applications there's always a dozen utterly unresolvable
conflicts because the devs are all on custom-built kernels and systems
and have used libraries that can't be installed on regular distros
because they conflict with the underlying system. Deeply frustrating.

I might dig out an old sacrificial system and install virgin Xenial
where I can go ahead and break things.

///Peter


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