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 -- Better to have one, and not need it, than to need one and not have it. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
