Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (956 mails)

[C <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:27, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger
<dimstar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As said: feel free to work on this. I have limited time capacity and
> will not invest more time on this. My primary goal for openSUSE is to
> have a stable support for GNOME 3.2 in 12.1.

Which is as it should be.

The core of openSUSE supports and provides the current/leading
versions of the applications.  If community members want to stay with
older versions of software, then they can step up, use the openSUSE
Build service and create a Community repo.  KDE3 is an example of
this.  Gnome2 has to be the same.  Gnome3 is the here and now and what
we (as a project) should ship as part of the next release... if a
small group of Gnome users want to stick with the old software, then
they can, but they must support it themselves.

The harsh reality is that like KDE3, Gnome2 is not maintained upstream
anymore. The beauty of the openSUSE Build system is... if you want to
stick with older obsolete software, you can :-) but you have to
maintain it yourself.

C.
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