Should I wait for Fedora Core 4? or "Dan t you don't scare me"

[dan]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On 01/26/2005 02:03:42 PM, Bill Case wrote:
> 
>>
>> Would the Yelp 2.9.whatever be the easiest.  It should already have
>> all
>> the parts in place??
> 
> 
> No. Building yelp 2.9 on FC3 is not so easy - it depends upon on other  
> development components of gnome that are newer than what FC3 ships  with.
> 
> You might be able to build it in a rawhide environment, but if you  
> updated everything in fc3 that you needed in order to build yelp, you  
> would end up breaking other stuff and essentially have a rawhide  system.
> 
> I want man and info support in yelp as well - it use to be there in an  
> earlier version of gnome (2.2 or 2.4?) and then for whatever reason was  
> removed before a replacement was necessary.
> 
> If you really want the new yelp, you will probably have to change your  
> system to rawhide, which has broken packages/dependencies from time to  
> time.
> 
> 

Another alternative might be to build static RPMs, which could easily 
end up being several hundred megs in size, thanks to Gnome. ;)

I don't know, I think this is where we hit a brick wall.  I'm sorry.

Good luck
-dant