Then you will only benefit from some of the changes. If
you are using a machine which not powerful enough to handle
the gnome desktop (even a low end x86), then you would need
to select a different desktop environment. Its quite likely
the netbsd-desktop install option will only be available
on i386 and amd64 initially, but quite a lot of the
infrastructure changes will benefit anyone who chooses to
install the relevant packages, no matter what arch.
Agree. I mean it'd be nice if the desktop is simple enough to be used on
other archs too (Alpha, MIPS, you name it). If the idea is to have a desktop
for people who need the job done, then probably they won't be from the x86
camp only.
Aside from that, I wouldn't choose Gnome for a very simple reason - it
depends on a damn lot of other packages. This deserves a separate thread, I
think.