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 1RVB6D-0001iu-ER for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:59:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE1DF21C114; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:58:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F3D21C102 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:57:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-182de1a5.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.225.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pASNv2DV011484 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:57:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 1DA21701F4; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:56:59 -0500 (EST) From: Allan Gottlieb To: Frank Steinmetzger Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed References: <4ED16076.5070300@xunil.at> <4ED1640F.4050903@xunil.at> <20111128214641.GB728@eisen.lan> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:56:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20111128214641.GB728@eisen.lan> (Frank Steinmetzger's message of "Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:48:11 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) 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: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 314875a2-6f31-4fec-8863-60f8d7b997ce X-Archives-Hash: 19905b331add2e88c5df1f538fa94c95 On Mon, Nov 28 2011, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Though I don=E2=80=99t use either Gnome version, I believe that we are qu= ite safe with > Gentoo for a while longer, as compared with most other distros out there.= At > least that is what I remember from my KDE experience; (almost) all distros > jumped on the KDE 4 waggon as soon as the still unusable 4.1 and let KDE 3 > fall instantly without alternative. > > OTOH, Gentoo remained with KDE3 as the main version for a comparably > long time, and I am very grateful for that. And even after KDE4 became > =E2=80=9Cstable=E2=80=9D in portage, we could still use both in parallel = for even > longer before KDE3 was finally removed from portage. I think I made > the final and complete switch as late as 4.3 or 4.4. See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-903280.html, which I believe is a good read. One quote 5. Will gnome-2 still be supported? For a limited time. We will support gnome-2 until gnome-3.x is stabilized. After gnome-3.x is marked stable, which will happen at some point in 2012, gnome-2 will be removed. We do not have the man-hours needed to properly support two major versions of gnome. allan