[Sugar-devel] Simplifying sugar-jhbuild

Bernie Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Thu May 21 06:40:07 EDT 2009


On 05/20/09 23:29, NoiseEHC wrote:
> When I tried jhbuild what I found strange that it does not detect the
> Linux distro so I had to manually enter commands as it was specified on
> the wiki. Can we get rid of that? (I have no idea how to detect the
> distro or how to automate that just to let you know this fact...)

You mean for installing dependencies?  This requires root privileges, so
jhbuild can't do it on its own.

Besides, we used to have some distro-specific dependency check in the
past, but I someone (marcopg?) ripped it off, probably because it was a
pita to maintain.

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