Anyone used this form of Gnome (very up to date) with Slack? Any success
or horror stories with it?

Details here: http://gsb.sourceforge.net/

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Dan C wrote:

> Anyone used this form of Gnome (very up to date) with Slack? Any success
> or horror stories with it?
>
> Details here: http://gsb.sourceforge.net/

I installed it, seemed to run fine.
I removed it after I'd played with it a bit and decided I still didn't like
gnome.

Removing by their method given on the installation page removes a rather
large number of non gnome libs that they decided to include. I ended up
reinstalling the whole of slackware l/ series (not much of a gotcha, but
one to watch for).

StevenR

StevenR wrote:
> Removing by their method given on the installation page removes a rather
> large number of non gnome libs that they decided to include. I ended up
> reinstalling the whole of slackware l/ series (not much of a gotcha, but
> one to watch for).

This is a gotcha for Dropline too, both on install and uninstall.
Dropline's installer figures it knows best what packages you should and
shouldn't have on your system, and it will silently uninstall anything
that it doesn't like, even if the matching Dropline packages aren't
installed. This means if you have a particular X setup, it will turf,
even if you don't install its replacement X system.

I /hate/ installers that try to be too smart. They end up just working
on the middle-of-the-road average Joe User machine and not on anything
else. Which is totally contrary to the spirit of Slack.

It's going to be a huge blow to Slackware if/when Gnome gets dropped
from the official distro.