Andrew Wyatt top-posted: > In addition to building GTK3, they would also have to update glib2, > glibc, atk, and roughly a dozen or more additional packages to support > just building base GNOME 3. And that's not where it ends. A potentially much more fundamental and system-changing requirement may be systemd, which other distros already require for Gnome 3, e.g. Gentoo. Johnny Hughes writes: > I would recommend that if you really MUST have gnome 3, you either use > gnome2 now and wait for RHEL-7 to be released (then we will release > CentOS-7 ... which will have gnome3) I'm not looking forward to this. RedHat needs to undertake major efforts to make this travesty of a desktop usable or we will be looking at massive retraining costs for hundreds of thousands, if not more, users across the board. RedHat's efforts at innovation to, putting it neutrally, distinguish themselves from competitors, if that really is the driving business reason behind incorporating changes that in the view of the wider Linux community are controversial at best, are deviating from established core Unix principles for no good reasons. Is it just an unhealthy obsession with fast boot times; doesn't matter that much to me when some servers can take minutes from cold start before starting the OS. In RHEL, there already is pulseaudio, soon systemd/udev/gnome3, and where will it end? Binary syslog? Systemd beconing the emacs of core system components? Is there another HAL debacle in the making?