Yes I have to say that installing the gnome distributions for slackware isn't hard, the problem I found was maintaining the system. From time to time the two sets of packages got out of sync and so weren't always compatible and the slackware package system didn't help in trying to alert you to conflicts (I did try using slapt-get and swaret but these still aren't as good as other package managers such as apt on debian). Now considering the above, yes an actual slackware distribution including gnome could help, its the responsibility of the distro maintainer to ensure that packages in the distro don't conflict at any given time (well at least for the stable branch). However making a custom distro just for that does seem a bit much. I would hope for gnome you might be able to reuse or assist with some of the existing work for providing gnome for slackware. As for including espeakup so the install can be done by software speech, I really would want to see that go back to slackware itself. Providing espeakup could be included on the main slackware disks, the only custom distro I would imagine with great value is a LiveCD based on slackware with all the accessibility tools available (how important is the distro a LiveCD is based on, GRML certainly is very good for an accessible LiveCD but is debian based). Michael Whapples On -10/01/37 20:59, Alex Snow wrote: > Making a custom distro just to get Gnome doesn't seem to be necessary as > all the gnome packages for Slackware I have tried install with minimal > work. > >
