Upgrade of xfce and slackware

[Biju Chacko]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:24:19 +0000, Chris Green wrote:

> I have just upgraded my slackware from 9.0 to 9.1 and xfce from 3.8.18 to
> 4.0.1.
> 
> The slackware upgrade was amazingly easy but the xfce one was slightly more
> difficult.
> 
> The difficulty was that xfce4 needs the libstartup-notification-1.so library
> and this is on the second slackware CD in the gnome packages directory which I
> hadn't installed.  As I have lots of space I just installed gnome as well and
> now xfce4 is up an running.
> 
> Maybe the non-base-system dependencies should be made more explicit.

This is an optional dependency. It will be used if it's there. The slackware
packager should have made a note that the packages he created had the
dependency.

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