On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 00:00 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
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So I still don't quite grasp why *exactly* is GNOME so much
more
complex in comparison to KDE, or why does it has so many components
"broken-out" into smaller packages, which in turn seem to be exactly
what holds back GNOME from inclusion of newer versions to the
distribution... In this sense, it would seem as if GNOME's modularity
was its Achilles' ankle, for upgrades in a current Fedora/Red Hat
release, anyway.
It is not *that* much more complex to build all of gnome, although there
are some packages lower in the stack which may have tight dependencies
on newish kernels, like hal. It took me ~1.5 days to get the recent
2.13.90 release of Gnome into rawhide.
It is more a result of limited resources, which we prefer to spend on
the next release, rather than the previous one...
Matthias