Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:09:52 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 9.1, Gnome issue Message-ID: <20130122140952.39097a50.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <op.wrbc1uqkuwjkcr@freebsd> References: <CAMB42mwYoCrRJiwXprLcgk-qgZy=qSg366msj1KwF6esE8X3VA@mail.gmail.com> <20130121224248.GA75986@whisperer.chthonixia.net> <CAMB42mz4u3WeoJDrpYXEHi_o2wNYqDM6x3U4YAJM7xxKdG_7Vg@mail.gmail.com> <op.wrbc1uqkuwjkcr@freebsd>
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:59:44 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:22:04 +0100, Hrisikesh sahu > <hrisikeshsahu@gmail.com> wrote: > > #portupgrade gnome2 > > Is there a future for GNOME 2 on FreeBSD? I assume -- on the _long_ run -- Gnome 2 will be dead, just as Gnome 1, KDE 1 and 2, and XFCE (capitals, so it "obviously" means version 3). MATE and Cinnamon are still maintained, and if there will be FreeBSD ports, they will probably work for some time, until eventually the required support libraries at certain levels of abstraction will not work (or even build) anymore, or when security concerns grow enough to abolish the port. Infrastructures are moving on, and backwards compatibility isn't the biggest strength of desktop environments. :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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