Adding ignore_suggests = True avoids building some large modules like
evolution speeding the build. But more importantly, it removes
gnome-disk-utility from the build. gnome-disk-utility has a hard
dependency on udisks-1.99, which is not found on anything but the
latest systems.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685353
# the prefix to configure/install modules to (must have write access)
prefix = os.path.expanduser('~/gnome-shell/install')
+# reduce what we build as much as possible
+ignore_suggests = True
+
# Use system libraries for the builds
if use_lib64:
_libdir = 'lib64'