On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 15:12, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 02:50:52PM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > BTW I just noticed there are no gnome packages in > > /usr/pkgsrc/meta-packages any more, while there are still some in x11 > > directory - was there any announce that it has been phased out? > > It was GNOME2, I am under the impression GNOME2 doesn't build with > updated libraries, and someone had considered removing it. > > An alternative is "MATE" which tries to continue the GNOME 2 spirit.
Yes, I am aware, I already have mate running on a few machines. At some stage I had problems with it with respect to using different keyboard layouts, so I reverted to gnome2 for a while; later I found the problem. I guess we have enough desktop environments even without gnome, although it would be nice if cinnamon gets into pkgsrc proper; as I mentioned above, it builds for me, but doesn't run very well - or at all in a virtual machine. -- ----
