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Re: s/gnome2/mate + gnome3 ?
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 04:33:43AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 06:54:05PM -0400, rodent%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> > Since GNOME 2 is no longer maintained upstream and MATE is the continuation of
> > GNOME 2, could we rip out the GNOME 2 packages, replace them with MATE, and
> > move forward with GNOME 3 in pkgsrc?
>
> I think what we'd previously intended to do was add the MATE packages
> first and make sure it's all (more or less) working before trying to
> cut over.
>
> (but nobody's done it so whatever)
Essentially by keeping GNOME 2, we don't need to bite the systemd / logind
bullet, which is essentially what is keeping GNOME 3 behind. MATE will
use the new GNOME 3 pieces too, so it seems we need to consider
http://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/desktop-infrastructure/
It seems this is beginning of the way to full GNOME 3 + MATE...
Cheers,
Patrick
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