On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:33:22PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com> writes: > > > Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs > > and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have > > release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or important) bugs at ship time. > > What do you think we should do with the Gnome stuff? > > The Gnome 0.30 stuff is still under rather heavy development. The > current packages in Slink are pretty much alpha-quality. Lots of > things don't work. It sounds like there will probably be a 1.0 > release coming up in a few months that will be thoroughly tested and > stable. > > I'm not sure if it's a good idea to release them as a part of a > "stable" distribution, as they really aren't. There aren't any > guarantees that the stuff that runs today is going to run tomorrow. This is right, but please don't remove gnome from slink. If gnome on CD-Rom the user can play with it and can write bug-reports and/or pachtes. Change only the description with a first Line like '** This is alpha software. It can run but it can destroy the system too **' and you can move it to extra. Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "The Box said 'Windows NT or better', so I installed Debian Linux"
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