Re: Accepted tasksel 3.29 (source all) into unstable

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote: 
        >    * Gnome only works on i386 and amd64, so default to xfce on other arches.
        >      Closes: #765839 Thanks, Adam Borowski for testing.
        
        Gnome only works on i386 and amd64?

GNOME works on all Linux architectures.

GNOME *without hardware 3D* will probably have big trouble running
anywhere but on i386 and amd64.
So in the real world, it depends on the architectures: 
      * real-world desktop powerpc hardware comes with hardware 3D and
        free drivers 
      * real-world ARM hardware comes with hardware 3D and non-free
        drivers 
      * not sure for mips* and s390

So of course if you want to be sure it works in a Qemu host, GNOME is
probably not the best choice. But in the real world it’s a bit more
complicated than that. 

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