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[David Brown <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>]

Okay a number of issues came up when I tried to update gnome 2.12 on my test box.

General Info about box:
xfce4-profile
gnome2-profile
extra misc gnome2 apps for development
... that's about it.

Summary after upgrade:
Spells that have been dropped:
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bug-buddy2      epiphany        gnome-menus
eel2            gnome-applets2  gnome-vfs2


Spells that encountered problems:
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apache2         pmount          nautilus2
hal            
librsvg2        gnome-panel

The install queue is not empty, 
it still contains the following spells: 
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bug-buddy2
eel2
epiphany
gnome-applets2
gnome-menus
gnome-vfs2

Problem Spells:
apache2: we are fixing it, the patches don't apply.
hal: wanted to chown something to group cdrom which I didn't have.
pmount: don't know why it failed but it worked, after hal successfully installed
librsvg2: complained about gnome-vfs2 not being of the right version, but it's optional depends
gnome-panel: complained about gnome-vfs2 not being of the right version, it's not in depends file, 
nautilus2: complained about librsvg2 not being of the right version.

Steps to Rectify:
1) try to compile gnome-vfs2 it wanted hal which I fixed... but it
didn't work, BUILD_API=2 I had to add to DETAILS to make it work.
2) try to compile nautilus2, failed it wanted eel2 ... don't know why it got dropped when it should be depends for nautilus2
3) try to compile eel2, worked
4) try to compile nautilus2, worked
5) compiled bug-buddy2 gnome-applets2 and gnome-menus fine

epiphany however didn't, seems it wants pygtk not just python, and
since pygtk2 and pygtk conflict I had to remove python support from
epiphany to get it installed.

Some of these problems are spell issues (BUILD_API=2 missing) some were
circular dependancies introduced through optional dependancies in the
higher level gnome apps so I don't know how the problems involving
version incompatibilities are going to be solved. 

I'd be nice if the spell problems get fixed soon, thanks

- David Brown