On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:23:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > - Gnome > > > - KDE > > > > I just wondered how far your understanding of these goes? Only the base > > environment, or also those applications that don't really belong to - > > I think that the equivilant metapackages are a good first step. Pity > that one of them has still not made it into testing, and this means that > the desktop taks currently contains *only* kde. To look at it in another > way, we had some complaints about it including both, but the last way I > would have guessed those would be resolved was by the gnome developers > recusing themselves from release as they seem to have done.
Despite the fact that meta-gnome2 hasn't yet made it into testing, I think GNOME is so far in a *much* better state than KDE, actually. The guts of gnome-core, with one or two exceptions, are there; there are only a few more dependencies left for gnome. Once nautilus makes it, which I hope should be RSN, all it would take is somebody quickly deciding at some point that we can drop a few less-important dependencies from meta-gnome2 and that'll be it. By contrast, KDE is still KDE 2 in testing, which in good conscience I don't think we can release with. I'm hoping this can change soon, and my impression is that the situation is beginning to improve. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]