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Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?



Darren Benham wrote:
> 
> Obviously we can't remove gnome from the distribution.  The only justifiable
> grounds to remove a *maintained* package is license!  How about, we only allow
> one gnome library and any program that depends on earlier version have to be
> recompiled or broken...

First, Gnome depends on any number of libraries. Second, we only keep
two versions around - slink and potato. Programs that depend on
inbetween versions _are_ broke. This is more of a complaint about GTK
than Gnome.

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