GNOME 2.18 released

GNOME 2.18 released

Having developed a piece of infrastructure software (had to keep running on an appliance or server, regardless, had to survive power cuts safely, etc) on Mono, I have no faith in it. I do not want it on any of my systems.

Luckily, on Debian I don't have to monolithically install "gnome" but can install only the parts I don't think are terrible. At least for now. Unfortunately the gnome library development strategy (expect the "right" environment, if not present do not recover) means this sometimes leads to silent failures and program misbeheavior, but one can always add more components to the terrible list.