On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 03:03:19PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You'll be forced to upgrade to GNOME3. > > Yes, and and that forced upgrade comes from more than just Debian. > > > I see no gnome2/gnome3 packaging differentiation as it happened with kde3/ > > kde4 in its early stage, most sure because gnome3 is now stable enough to > > be safely included by default. > > It's because the GNOME team deliberately broke the ability to keep > both GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 at the same time. While effort could be > expended to allow them to live side by side, the API uses the same > names for functions and yet are incompatible with each other. GNOME > upstream decided that they didn't want people able to have both. > Since GNOME has moved forward with version 3, they reason, everyone > else must be forced to move forward, as well. > > While I use GNOME Shell on my desktop and don't mind it so much (I > don't care about its features, I just use it as a window manager), I > think this attitude on the part of the GNOME developers is > inexcusable.
Not so inexcusable. If they kept both, they would be saddled with the task of maintaining both. As far as I'm aware, these people are volunteers. If so, that's quite a load to ask them to carry. > > -- > Chris > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/caoevnytwfilux6jnmsrxnzotxd0jzg0oxqovfijtrl8qgrf...@mail.gmail.com -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer. Key ID: 8D549279
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