On Wednesday 05 August 2009 14:06:43 Jussi Lehtola wrote:
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.
Which sounds like, it would break 'other apps', not 'the core OS'.
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.
Likewise. I'm also very happy that KDE SIG goes through the effort
and brings the 4.3 to us and we can enjoy the whole lifespan of already
installed OS. That is a huge saving in manhours, bandwidth, electricity,
hard disk ballbearings, whatever - world wide. Certainly worth of effort.
Tuju
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Better to have one, and not need it, than to need one and not have it.