John Oliver wrote:

The gnome-session package was missing.  What happened to it?  Why did
gnome work, and then not work?  Who knows?  But installing gnome-session
(and it's utterly ridiculous family of dependencies... someone ought to
get slapped, hard)

Well, I feel that way about *all* the modern window manager things.

It's almost impossible to actually build Gnome or KDE from a .tgz file anymore. You need a packaging system to take care of the myriad dependencies.

However, I suspect that the only reason this is a complaint is because we *can* build KDE or Gnome from source. I'm sure that Windows or OS X has a similar chain of dependencies.

-a


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