On Mon, Nov 28 2011, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Though I don’t use either Gnome version, I believe that we are quite safe with > Gentoo for a while longer, as compared with most other distros out there. At > least that is what I remember from my KDE experience; (almost) all distros > jumped on the KDE 4 waggon as soon as the still unusable 4.1 and let KDE 3 > fall instantly without alternative. > > OTOH, Gentoo remained with KDE3 as the main version for a comparably > long time, and I am very grateful for that. And even after KDE4 became > “stable” in portage, we could still use both in parallel for even > longer before KDE3 was finally removed from portage. I think I made > the final and complete switch as late as 4.3 or 4.4.
See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-903280.html, which I believe is a good read. One quote 5. Will gnome-2 still be supported? For a limited time. We will support gnome-2 until gnome-3.x is stabilized. After gnome-3.x is marked stable, which will happen at some point in 2012, gnome-2 will be removed. We do not have the man-hours needed to properly support two major versions of gnome. allan
