On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:25:02PM -0600, Pat Plummer wrote:
> Through the extreme patience of Bob Nestor and Gabriel Rosenkoetter (thanks
> for enduring my questions),

No problem.

> Version 1.1.2 of kde requires packages (gmake 3.7.9, Mesa 3.1, and tiff
> 3.5.5) that are not yet available for mac68k.
> 
> - Do I install the next most recent package (which is available for mac68k)
> and if I do, what problems might I expect ?

You're going to be waiting a coon's age if you wait for binary
packages, Pat. :^>

> - Should I instead try to find these packages on another platform and try to
> compile them as Gabriel suggested to me?

More properly, these are not packages "on another platform", but
rather the source for the packages which will (theoretically) compile
on any supported architecture running NetBSD. (That's not strictly the
case, but everything you list should be fine.)

> - Should I not even think about kde as an x windowing system because of
> performance issues?

Well. Put it this way, it's not going to be anywhere near as speedy as
your Intel Linux box running the same. Having never used KDE anywhere,
though, I can't be very specific.

I maintain that all anyone needs is twm or, in extreme need of more
virtual desk space, vtwm, but I'm also a fan of the csh-style !
history editing, so...

At any rate, twm was just dandy on my Performa 636 back when I used it
regularl.

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