Bug#727708: Re: Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal
This sounds like a good solution, since MATE is the gnome we all knew, and the Gnome of today is a different beast entirely (though it gets to keep the name).
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>Hum, we can always add “remove GNOME (3) from Debian” to the
>list of GR or TC points to consider (this *has* been suggested
>earlier, even)… and given that MATE seems to have picked up
>the market of GNOME…
>This is more of a threat than a promise.
There are alot of those from a certain crowd.
They use the carrot and the stick approach.
The proper free/open approach is just the carrot and let people decide and respect them.
Not cattle pen them and run them to wherever one wishes.
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