On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:46 +0300, Juha Tuomala wrote:
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 13:08:28 Colin Walters wrote:
> Because a lot of GNOME works directly with (and depends on) the core
> OS., and we want a stable system.
Does this mean, that every time I've installed my system and left
GNOME out, I made a broken system?
Is there a list of those 'direct dependencies' somewhere?
No, it means that updating gnome would mean updating a bunch of
libraries that are used by other apps. This would require a lot of
rebuilds, and they might fail due to a number of reasons.
Upgrading the desktop is potentially a big operation. I am very happy
with the release scheme that is used with Gnome, OpenOffice, GCC and so
on. If you want the newest and shiniest, use the newest release of
Fedora.
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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