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What a remarkably dishonest argument. The example of gnome running on openbsd is precisely because the openbsd ports people patched the hell out of it to remove all the non-portable crap. Leaving a gnome with a bunch of features gone. And notice Antoine who did that work and provided that screenshot is one of the people who thinks there is no future for gnome on non-linux systems: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/10/msg00580.html

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>because the openbsd ports people patched the hell out of it to remove all the non-portable crap. Leaving a gnome with a bunch of features gone.

Make up your mind. Was what they removed "crap" or was it "a bunch of features"?

Why do you present a false dichotomy? The gnome team (and presumably at least some gnome users) consider them features. Those features are implemented as non-portable crap. Saying gnome works fine on openbsd and pointing to part of gnome working only after an openbsd guy ripped out big chunks of it is just silly.

In the blogpost referenced here as well as another blogpost, OpenBSD and FreeBSD developers appreciate the work that Ryan has been doing. Calling everything "crap" is a bit easy. What I did learn (since today) is that we were waiting for them (*BSD) to contact us (GNOME), while once only 1 person contacted them, we got a lot of cooperation going.

>What I did learn (since today) is that we were waiting for them (*BSD) to contact us (GNOME)

Really? All the patches that were sent upstream and ignored for years wasn't contact?

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