On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:
Using RPMs or packages or whatever for the GNUstep core stuff seems to
be the best way of installing GNUstep itself. This requires some
effort
as many different platforms have to be supported, but it can be done.
The last real issue is IMHO - as discussed in a separate thread - the
GNUstep.sh file. This is really a problem as for "users" it is not
easy
or maybe even not possible to modify say /etc/profile, hence we have
to
find a good solution here, the sooner the better!
You could probably safely assume that the user can write to /etc if she
can install rpm packages. You could simply put GNUstep.sh in
/etc/profile.d and it will be sourced when a user logs in. I'm not sure
if this also works on SuSE but it should work on at least
RedHat/Mandrake.
Also most of the incompatibilites between different rpm based
distributions come from things like SysV init scripts, man pages, info
files, directory layout and Gnome/KDE integration most of which may not
apply to GNUstep.