On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 02:57:35AM +0400, Виталий Короневич wrote: > debian gnome-edition - ok > debian kde-edition - ok > debian lxde-edition - ok > debian xfce-edition - ok
Those aren't really editions comparable to Ubuntu's editions or Fedora's spins. You just install a regular Debian and choose the desktop enviroment you want. > when will debian mate-edition? This isn't as easy and straight-forward as you might think. There are many problems that need to be solved with MATE first before it can enter Debian. Some of these are discussed here [1]. One of the biggest problems with MATE so far is that it currently depends on libraries and other things that have been deprecated and removed in Debian and should not be reintroduced to Debian. Thus, the MATE developers are working to port MATE to more recent libraries which are available in Debian. Furthermore, work has to be done to make sure MATE co-installs seamlessly with anything from GNOME which isn't that trivial. There are many binaries and libraries which still exist in GNOME3 and installing MATE could possibily break these. I'm actually helping the MATE developers to get MATE ready for Debian, but don't expect that to happen anytime soon. I'm also working on getting mdm ready, a fork of gdm 2.20. Currently, I'm not really happy with the code, however. Adrian > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658783 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121104235121.ga25...@physik.fu-berlin.de
