Is GNOME a possibility?

[Akuna]

@Akuna
Please do not take it personally, make peace not war.

This ramble is totally irrelevant. Do not speak in the name of Salix developers. Period!

[DavidMcCann]

On the subject of installing Gnome from the Slackbuilds repository, I think the warning in the Salix Wiki can't be emphasised too strongly: that stuff is trouble!

I tried to use it to install Evolution. The dependency resolution was only partially successful, and even after installing files manually I still couldn't get a working program. Today, I tried installing Gnucash, which is of course available in the Salix repository. I couldn't get that to work until I'd removed all the library files left over from Slackbuilds and replaced them with the Salix ones. I was getting "undefined symbol" error messages from all of them!

I like Gnome, but I think Xfce is a good substitute. The only Gnome program I can think of with no possible substitute is Gnucash, and we've got it.

[thenktor]

Dozens of libs are replaced/upgraded with this gnome repo, so it's quite normal that it may break a lot of Salix packages.

[lmello]

Gnome is not a dependency hell and building it is not horrible. It just needs a lot of work to do it. I don't think building KDE is any easier.

I personally like gnome. A lot. And I would love to have a gnome edition in salix, but there are only two ways in order for salix to have a gnome edition:
1. Stick with a really old version of gnome, or
2. Become incompatible with slackware
none of which is desirable. So, the answer is no, it's not really a possibility.

I also like gnome, and understand the situation but... what about Slackware/Salix-current? Could gnome become a possibility in 13.2?

[pwatk]

...having to use an old version of Gnome or Salix becoming incompatible with Slackware is something that is not desirable.

I'm not really bothered about bleeding edge so-long-as it works so whats the issue with building an older version of gnome?

[lmello]

...having to use an old version of Gnome or Salix becoming incompatible with Slackware is something that is not desirable.

I'm not really bothered about bleeding edge so-long-as it works so whats the issue with building an older version of gnome?

Neither do I. Besides, some older GNOME versions are better than others - I didn't like the jump from 2.28 to 2.30, for example.

[mimosa]

I do agree with pwatk and lmello, if there were to be a Gnome version. Personally, though, I am perfectly content with xfce, and I bet it is faster than any Gnome would be. It sounds as though doing it would be quite a resource-intensive project.

[thenktor]

Xfce is the new Gnome

[lmello]

I do agree with pwatk and lmello, if there were to be a Gnome version. Personally, though, I am perfectly content with xfce, and I bet it is faster than any Gnome would be. It sounds as though doing it would be quite a resource-intensive project.

I'd prefer a GNOME version of Salix instead of XFCE, even though I like XFCE a lot, despite all of its bugs.

[thenktor]

Everybody can feel free to package Gnome and we'll happily put it to our repo