Upgrade of xfce and slackware

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:12:48AM +0100, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Op wo 26-11-2003, om 23:24 schreef Chris Green:
> > 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.
> 
> You're not blaming us for the lack of dependency handling in slackware,
> are you?
> 
No of course not, I prefer it that way.


> If you read the install instructions on the web site you would have seen
> it is an optional dependency.
> 
Well I thought I'd checked through them reasonably well and now I've
gone back and taken a harder look and can't find anything listing
dependencies (not run-time ones anyway).  I certainly can't find it in
the documentation/installation section.  Where is it?

-- 
Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)