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I haven't read all of these, and I repeat my earlier caveat that this comes from a biased source, but there is a potential "follow the money" reason why Novell & hence SLED in particular would want to see a mono dependency in the Linux desktop:

Thanks for the links in your post, I got the laugh of the day ^^ <3 "”Therefore the core of Gnome is now Mono dependent, just as I predicted it would eventually become.“" written in biiig bold characters just so no one would miss the FUD ;) No, Yelp is not dependant on Mono :3 Yelp can be used just fine without having Mono installed ;) And I don't really understand all this fuss about them adding support for Beagle...It's there to make searching for files or words easier, and they support Tracker too nowadays.

Sure, Novell may wish for Mono to be widely adopted and even become a hard-dependancy for GNOME core. But it just won't happen. Not all GNOME developers work for Novell, and not all of them support Mono. If those developers were "fired" it would cause such an uproar and huge negative PR throughout any Linux-related website that Novell/GNOME wouldn't be able to hide it.

Beagle support I can understand, it is a handy utility. It was not chosen because of it being Mono-app, it was chosen because it works well. And even then it is a soft-dependendy, not a hard one. I just can't even imagine GNOME devs being so inherently stupid to somehow make the core libs or apps Mono dependant when it is still not clear if it is safe or not.

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