[Debian-olpc-devel] Status of Debian OLPC

[Anton]

On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:21:07 -0400
Lincoln Quirk <lincoln at techhouse.org> wrote:

> I've been futzing with getting a sugar environment installed on my PPC
> Debian laptop, and it's been the hugest pain. I've gotten a lot of
> packages installed through apt (rather than using jhbuild for everything
> -- my machine compiles rather slowly).
> 
> I've been moderately successful, but the notable package that I'm having
> trouble with is Mozilla. I can't seem to convince Sugar to build against
> the libxul-dev packages in Debian. (So right now I'm waiting for the
> compile -- it's taken a few hours now)
> 
> Anyone having success? I have been manually resolving jhbuild
> dependencies by installing the correct package through aptitude and
> adding --skip to the command line. That seems like a really poor
> solution overall, so I hope this project exists to provide something
> better.
> 
> There seems to be little activity on this project; is anyone finding
> anything?

	Lincoln, you're the first, who starts messaging for this list.

Me personally, awaiting for other subscribers to at least write down the goals 
of this project. And what we all finally expect after all.

Thanks.