Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

[Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola fedoraproject org>]

On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:46 +0300, Juha Tuomala wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 05 August 2009 13:08:28 Colin Walters wrote:
> > Because a lot of GNOME works directly with (and depends on) the core
> > OS., and we want a stable system.
> 
> Does this mean, that every time I've installed my system and left 
> GNOME out, I made a broken system? 
> 
> Is there a list of those 'direct dependencies' somewhere?

No, it means that updating gnome would mean updating a bunch of
libraries that are used by other apps. This would require a lot of
rebuilds, and they might fail due to a number of reasons.

Upgrading the desktop is potentially a big operation. I am very happy
with the release scheme that is used with Gnome, OpenOffice, GCC and so
on. If you want the newest and shiniest, use the newest release of
Fedora.
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola fedoraproject org