On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Terry Barnaby <ter...@beam.ltd.uk> wrote: > But its seems like a lot of people would like Gnome2 back. Why doesn't > someone, > who has a problem with it just rebuild and release Gnome2 for F15 (with a > different package name) ?
Apparently it is already being done (sorry, forgot the new name of the fork). However, AFAIK, it is far from straightforward to "rebuild and release" it. Gnome 2 and 3 use different versions of the same set of libraries, and cannot coexist on the same system easily. And Fedora has a lot of Gnome3 dependencies, even if you do not install Gnome3 itself. So the old Gnome2 needs to be heavily patched at the source code level, if it is to interoperate with the rest of the distro. This is much more complicated than just rebuilding srpms. HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
