This is from the slackware changelog -
Sat Mar 26 23:04:41 PST 2005
gnome/*: Removed from -current, and turned over to community support and
distribution. I'm not going to rehash all the reasons behind this, but
it's been under consideration for more than four years. There are
already good projects in place to provide Slackware GNOME for those who
want it, and these are more complete than what Slackware has shipped in
the past. So, if you're looking for GNOME for Slackware -current, I
would recommend looking at these two projects for well-built packages
that follow a policy of minimal interference with the base Slackware
system:
http://gsb.sf.net
http://gware.sf.net
There is also Dropline, of course, which is quite popular. However, due
to their policy of adding PAM and replacing large system packages (like
the entire X11 system) with their own versions, I can't give quite the
same sort of nod to Dropline. Nevertheless, it remains another choice,
and it's _your_ system, so I will also mention their project:
http://www.dropline.net/gnome/
Please do not incorrectly interpret any of this as a slight against
GNOME itself, which (although it does usually need to be fixed and
polished beyond the way it ships from upstream more so than, say, KDE or
XFce) is a decent desktop choice. So are a lot of others, but Slackware
does not need to ship every choice. GNOME is and always has been a
moving target (even the "stable" releases usually aren't quite ready
yet) that really does demand a team to keep up on all the changes (many
of which are not always well documented). I fully expect that this move
will improve the quality of both Slackware itself, and the quality (and
quantity) of the GNOME options available for it.
Folks, this is how open source is supposed to work. Enjoy. :-)
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