Re: Can someone provide a sensible plan for GNOME in Debian, please? [Was: Bug#158165]
Caveat emptor: I'm not a GNOME person, not even a GNOME user, but I'd
like to understand the issue here.
>> Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org> writes:
> - should not require piecemeal installation of GNOME 2.x Desktop
> components such as Sawfish and gnome-terminal (they will not
> interoperate correctly - the G2D components are an all-or-nothing
> upgrade)
What does "G2D components" mean in this context and why is it an
all-or-nothing upgrade. On the archives of debian-ctte I saw Ian
asking this very question but last time I checked there wasn't an
answer.
> - must not involve removal of basic GTK+/GNOME libraries, or gnomecc,
> as GTK+/GNOME 1.x software relies on these
AFAIUI, noone has considered removing libraries. The way I read
Raphael's jest, he meant removing applications -- which for some reason
or another people seem to be fondly attached to.
> - suggested that libgconf1 is patched to launch gconfd-2 (as in Red
> Hat), and all GNOME 1.x packages change dependencies to gconf2,
> whilst keeping library dependency the same... this should definitely
> be done for sarge (this means that there will be no interoperability
> issues between 1.x and 2.x desktop components and applications wrt
> gconfd)
Hmm... something smells fishy there. If libgconf1 can work without
trouble with gconfd-2, why does gconfd-2 exist at all? I mean, why
isn't it just an upgrade for gconfd (in the "take one binary, replace
it with another, keep the name" sense)?
> Despite Christian's criticisms, I'm not here to troll. I'm here to
> help you guys make Debian's GNOME as good as it can be. If you need
> information from upstream, or help with issues during the migration,
> I'm right here.
Thank you.
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