Re: pkg_add & gnome

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:27:24 -0700 (PDT)
u56237z <u56237z%hotmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> 
> Im trying to install gnome on netbsd 4.0 via pkg_add..
> 
> I can manage to add packages, but I simply have no idea which one of
> the 38374 gnome-xxx stuff I have to install.. I got some..
> gnome-platform, gnome-build etc, but I keep on missing stuff.. each
> package checks for dependencies and installs them accordingly but I
> still have very few packages comparing to the list in the /gnome
> package directory..
> 
> which one is  the 'main' package to install? the one that gets every
> other package? I keep on missing gnome-session.. where is it?

meta-pkgs/gnome, I believe.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb