[Slackware] Adeus ao Gnome!!

Como debatido anteriormente, pelo Patrick, aconteceu, estava olhando hoje, o Changelog, e aconteceu realmente, o Gnome foi retirado do Slackware-current, segue changelog atualizado.
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt

Sat Mar 26 23:04:41 PST 2005

a/hotplug-2004_09_23-noarch-2.tgz:  Blacklisted a few more modules:

  snd-atiixp-modem, snd-intel8x0m, snd-via82xx-modem, and intelfb.

  Thanks to Tomas Matejicek, Piter PUNK, and Tobias Svensson for reporting

  the problems with hotplug auto-loading these (in the rare event that your

  machine actually needs them, they can be manually loaded somewhere else

  in the boot scripts, such as rc.modules.)

a/infozip-5.52-i486-1.tgz:  Upgraded to unzip-5.52 and zip-2.31.

a/gettext-0.14.3-i486-1.tgz:  Upgraded to gettext-0.14.3.

ap/mysql-4.0.24-i486-1.tgz:  Upgraded to mysql-4.0.24.

d/automake-1.9.5-noarch-1.tgz:  Upgraded to automake-1.9.5.

d/gettext-tools-0.14.3-i486-1.tgz:  Upgraded to gettext-0.14.3.

d/libtool-1.5.14-i486-1.tgz:  Upgraded to libtool-1.5.14.

gnome/*:  Removed from -current, and turned over to community support and

  distribution.  I'm not going to rehash all the reasons behind this, but it's

  been under consideration for more than four years.  There are already good

  projects in place to provide Slackware GNOME for those who want it, and

  these are more complete than what Slackware has shipped in the past.  So, if

  you're looking for GNOME for Slackware -current, I would recommend looking at

  these two projects for well-built packages that follow a policy of minimal

  interference with the base Slackware system:



    http://gsb.sf.net

    http://gware.sf.net



  There is also Dropline, of course, which is quite popular.  However, due to

  their policy of adding PAM and replacing large system packages (like the

  entire X11 system) with their own versions, I can't give quite the same sort

  of nod to Dropline.  Nevertheless, it remains another choice, and it's _your_

  system, so I will also mention their project:



    http://www.dropline.net/gnome/



  Please do not incorrectly interpret any of this as a slight against GNOME

  itself, which (although it does usually need to be fixed and polished beyond

  the way it ships from upstream more so than, say, KDE or XFce) is a decent

  desktop choice.  So are a lot of others, but Slackware does not need to ship

  every choice.  GNOME is and always has been a moving target (even the

  "stable" releases usually aren't quite ready yet) that really does demand a

  team to keep up on all the changes (many of which are not always well

  documented).  I fully expect that this move will improve the quality of both

  Slackware itself, and the quality (and quantity) of the GNOME options

  available for it.



  Folks, this is how open source is supposed to work.  Enjoy.  :-)

Mas...
Ficam outras alternativas.