DragonFly GNOME and KDE4 meta packages

Francois Tigeot ftigeot at wolfpond.org
Tue Oct 23 01:24:43 PDT 2012


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 09:36:16AM +0200, John Marino wrote:
> 
> To clarify for those that may not know, DragonFly uses pkgsrc and
> not OpenPorts.  The pkgsrc support for gnome is obviously behind
> OpenPorts supposedly due to the linuxisms getting added to gnome.
> 
> Personally I don't expect the situation of pkgsrc's gnome to improve
> any time soon.

Gnome developers are currently busy making their software dependent on
systemd-specific interfaces:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-October/msg00056.html

As such, Gnome will probably only run on only a few select Linux distributions
in the near future.

IMHO, it's clear these people don't want any users and the Gnome project
is dead.
We should not waste our time and focus on other projects instead.

-- 
Francois Tigeot



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