Dropline Gnome - To Invasive
Whatever you do, do
not install
Dropline Gnome on your
system if you think you might every want to remove it. I installed it to see
what it was about and to try and get updated libraries and other thingies that
some Gnomish programs rely on. In my case it was to try out Cedega for playing
games in Linux. Other than that one app, I really don't need Gnome. So, I
decided to uninstall Cedega and Dropline along with it as it wasn't needed
anymore. Afterwords my system started acting very strange. Programs sort of
half worked. Some started crashing with Segfaults and other good fun. I had
read somewhere that Dropline will kill your system if you ever remove it and
now I believe them.
Previously I had
Freerock Gnome installed which worked fine but was
beginning to age. The build that was installed was actually built for
Slackware 10.2 (I'm using 11.0) and the project seems to have stagnated pretty
badly. Freerock is much more preferred as it is intentionally designed to be an
noninclusive as possible.
To get my system working again I had to restore the root partition from a 2
week old backup. All my data sits on a separate partition so the age of the
back wasn't that big of a deal. If I didn't have a backup the only practical
solution would have been to reinstall. As it stands now the time spent on
just trying to get it working is almost equal to doing a base install. About 10
minute after starting the restore my system was back up and running stable
again.