Re: KDE and Debian

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl]

On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 04:36:51PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Is there a chance to see KDE in near future in Debian 

It could go in contrib.

> (is anybody working on it)?

KDE is still listed as orphaned in the 980223 Work-Needing and Prospective
Packages post, but I vaguely recall new volunteers for it.

> I noticed, that a remarkable fraction of c.o.l.a. were KDE programs in the
> past few days. I think it would be a great improvement of debian, if we
> would have KDE.

The core Debian distribution ("main") cannot have KDE as long as KDE depends
on a library that is not DFSG-free.

> nor about the gnome project (I did not see any gnome live sign in the last
> few weeks in c.o.l.a.).

In general it's better to obtain information from the source:
http://www.gnome.org .

Ray
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