[slackware-alphadevel] possible removals coming up

From: Chris Lumens (chris@slackware.com)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2001 - 00:22:18 PDT

To anyone on the list that is particularly fond of GNOME:

You might want to make sure you've got a copy of the binary packages and
(optionally) the source tree from the gtk series as well. I am not likely
to update to GNOME-1.4 whenever that comes out. Further, the chances that
it gets removed from the distribution increases with each day.

So if you want to make sure you've got a copy preserved for posterity and
all that, you might want to copy it some place safe. Note that removing
GNOME is not the same as removing E, Sawfish, Xchat, and so forth. Those
things would stay. So would the GIMP, a few libraries, and so forth.
GNOME proper, though, is in my crosshairs.

I'm sure that someone will want rationale for this. I'll save that until
someone asks :) No, this is not yet definate. But it's being given very
serious consideration. 

-- 
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
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print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";

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