On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/18/2014 09:09 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think that this is not a fundamentally RHEL or Scientific Linux >> issue. This is the result of design decisions in the Gnome development >> community. > > Pardon my misunderstanding -- but it is my impression that the Gnome > provided with EL N (currently, EL 7) is not the same as the Gnome current > production version available through the Gnome URL. Rather, as with > Firefox, etc., the EL version is behind "current" for reasons of stability > and "hardening". In the case of Firefox, I personally use the latest > production release; however, my understanding is that for systems crucial > applications, this is not feasible (e.g., glibc), and thus I suspect the > same holds for gnome or KDE. If this is the case, then it is an EL issue -- > what features and at what revision level does EL support gnome current? I'm afraid that Gnome is a bloated serpent's nest of interwoven features and Unweaving it into something lighter, architecturally rational, and supportable as individual components would be like putting handlebars on a Jeep. It might actually work better than the steering wheel, but it's a lot of extra integration work to maintain and likely to break with the next upstream revision.
