GNOME still available (was Re: Leaving the fold)

Alejandro López grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Felix Miata <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 2011/09/02 15:04 (GMT+0200) Alejandro López composed:
>>
>>  Len Lawrence wrote:
>>
>>   I can no longer support a system which has nailed its colours to the KDE
>>>>  mast.
>>>
>>  Can someone explain this sentence? Has Mandriva dropped Gnome for 2011.0?
>>> Any link to this information? Thanks.
>>
>> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/**2011.0_Notes
> 
> Geez! I'll have to move to Mageia.
> 
> Thanks for the information.

Um... people?  Over-reactive & panic-prone much? :-)  The GNOME package
is hardly *gone*.  Yes, the above notes page has this on it:

> GNOME, Xfce and other Desktop Environments (DE) and Window Managers
> (WM) are no longer included in the official Mandriva packages.

It *does*, however, go on to say this:

> Contribution packages from the Mandriva community are available for
> these desktop environments however.

And sure enough, I can see the entire GNOME set of .rpm packages in the
Contrib tree.  It's not going anywhere, it's just not in Main anymore.
There's lots of things that are not in Main but have been in Contrib for
years.  So relax, anyone who wants GNOME in their Mandriva can still
have it. :-)  If GNOME ever gets dropped completely (I.E., gone from the
Contrib tree, which frankly I just don't see happening anytime soon
since it has a pretty good-sized following), THEN start yelling about
jumping ship. <grin>

                     --Dave

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