On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 20:04 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > GNOME on the other hand, is a huge mess to upgrade, even when using > garnom. > Last time I counted, GNOME had around of 120 (!!!) packages, with weird > cross-dependencies between them. It's far from being the same task. > (Last time I tried using it, back in FC2 days, I ended up with a dead > system on my hands.) gnome isn't *that* difficult - I've done it in LFS several times. You do want to use a clean environment (such as mock) to make it easier if you already have an existing gnome installed - to prevent linking against libraries you are going to replace. KDE may have a cleaner build system for the platform, though - but gnome isn't that difficult to get right.
