On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:33:22PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > > Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs > > and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have > > release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or important) bugs at ship time. > > What do you think we should do with the Gnome stuff? > > The Gnome 0.30 stuff is still under rather heavy development. The > current packages in Slink are pretty much alpha-quality. Lots of > things don't work. It sounds like there will probably be a 1.0 > release coming up in a few months that will be thoroughly tested and > stable. > > I'm not sure if it's a good idea to release them as a part of a > "stable" distribution, as they really aren't. There aren't any > guarantees that the stuff that runs today is going to run tomorrow.
I installed it yesterday to get a glimpse at what they are doing. I'd say it should be left out because it doesn't really work. It is a fine demonstration, but it doesn't add value to Debian until it can be used either a) to hack against, or b) to provide a workable desktop environment.