From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NvPsu-0000eS-QP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:52:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 389EDE0877; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com (mail-bw0-f219.google.com [209.85.218.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA24E0877 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so955376bwz.26 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:51:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=DYlsX+jC/CgW/jzq5PBgUWxIImZD7WGVTY8KrdnjT7o=; b=NWFVyfsRhVaj6UOEQ9SiBC2QnahEUQQQTUXQrGfBpvNmh+Tm3PpqxhJkOLvoqcUs9Y dRzkvtea5dYRUhLddWbqtMy2U7XMtxrJY45+PhkBE/8L6ZBqQQxCCCdGFVbV4g8OSlx+ /mpxpYlmCGPWK1R1ns4LXrODLg5m+oDDm+OfY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=CEaLPQMWR8StVwImULmUCv3xvbGC9i+wMpL2hRCqGIJeMKPChBVeD26uHOVomFTOHi X8ncmW7mr2iBePBR840yyAWbFRF5dWOQORHeatJZG75MP6YllDvddqN0kxtGAEuxLhFl FDH2UbJQ17gdhwJNltTEOVUeq3dqylPwyIUb0= Received: by 10.204.14.84 with SMTP id f20mr2444239bka.209.1269672689649; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-122.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l1sm14800172bkl.14.2010.03.26.23.51.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:51:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono? Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:48:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.33-zen1; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Neil Bothwick References: <53e35fd51003250831u243f7a26rd15e45af50d46eb6@mail.gmail.com> <201003261539.52108.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <20100326225731.7cca185c@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100326225731.7cca185c@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003270848.22937.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 118e01e3-cb4c-44ec-bea4-44c7ba9d61c3 X-Archives-Hash: adc98ce386b0ddf2440eb328da3fbd4e On Saturday 27 March 2010 00:57:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. > > Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? No, that was the FSF's beef. As Volker said, Red Hat have never had a problem with proprietary bits. Personally I think they are just being pragmatic. RH probably chose Gnome as it is easier to ship a fully working out-the-box system with gnome. KDE has too many knobs -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com