[Mageia-dev] Cinnamon

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 17:16:52 CET 2012


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Joseph Wang <joequant at gmail.com> wrote:

> > This is true, and there is no doubt that we need more resources, but in
> > this case it could cost more than it gains. We have had issues in the
> > past of the packages for these alternative DEs causing issues for the
> > core DEs due to the packages satisfying dep's required by the core
> packages.
>
> I don't think that cinnamon is ready for Mageia 3.  However if we have
> a situation
> in which it's impossible to package a new DE even in an experimental
> setting,
> then we have a pretty serious problem.  That locks Mageia to GNOME and KDE,
> and GNOME is self-destructing.
>

You can package it to updates_testing in cauldron, this will not go into
mageia 3
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