On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Stephen Crowley wrote: crow>That is ridiculous, there is no reason to remove gnome before the freeze, if you FWIW, one of the slashdot commenters on the slink-freeze, commends slink for including gnome ( he did install the packages, too) . John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre