development cycle (Was: Re: What's New in Fedora Core5Test2(LWN):Some comments)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

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>Yes, but will there be GNOME 2.14 packages for FC4 while it still is
>"current" and not moved to Legacy, like what was done with KDE?
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Unlikely.

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>mean, the common reason given to NOT provide GNOME update packages
>usually is the ammount of system files or interactions that GNOME has,
>I wonder if KDE does not have such issues, wouldn't it then be a
>problem with GNOME's design, then?
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Thats a question for the development lists.

>I totally LOVE GNOME and use it over KDE, but certainly I can't
>understand Red Hat and Fedora stand on it. I mean, RHEL 4 users will
>not be able to use a newer GNOME other than 2.6 (or was it 2.8?) until
>RHEL 5 with GNOME 2.1x.
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>I don't mean to rant over this, is just that I don't seem to fully
>understand why it is not made that way...
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It would be better to ask in the development lists or the maintainer.

> Has KDE already moved into
>Extras?
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No it has not. Such plans are very much undecided.

> Because in that should free up some hands to improve on GNOME
>(or am I getting this totally wrong?).
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>Sorry if my comments don't make any sense to anyone but me.
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 From the development as well as user perspective, what applies to 
package X does not always apply to package Y.

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Rahul 

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