Is there any way to avoid installing metacity and install the Gnome environment?
Yes, I know the BLFS book mentions metacity as a dependency for the control-center, and the control-center is one of the core packages of Gnome. But something just doesn't match up. I opened up the README file for control-center-2.2.1, and it lists the dependencies for the package. It doesn't mention metacity in the list. In fact, this is what the README says:
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Requirements -
intltool >= 0.21
gtk+ >= 2.0.0
gconf >= 2.0.0
libgnome >= 2.0.0
libgnomeui >= 2.0.0
libglade >= 2.0.0
libbonobo >= 2.0.0
libbonoboui >= 2.0.0
libgnomevfs >= 2.0.0
gnome-desktop >= 2.0.0
I thought to myself, "Great! I want to use sawfish. So I don't have to install metacity after all." Well, since you're reading this post, you've probably guessed that things didn't go according to plan.
Sure enough, the configure script checks for metacity libraries, and chokes when it doesn't find them. So, here are my questions:
1. Is the README file out-of-date, and SHOULD list metacity?
2. Is metacity a dependency for one of the above packages? I'm fairly certain I installed them all without metacity, and without any problems (but my memory has failed me before...)
3. Is it possible to install control-center without metacity? Is there a configure command-line argument to disable whatever metacity is needed for? I looked at the README, the INSTALL, the result of "./configure --help", and "./configure --help=recursive" with no mention of any feature flags.
4. Is it possible to install only the needed libraries for metacity, but not the whole window manager package?
It just seems a waste of space to install TWO window managers... especially on an LFS system.
