[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: gnome-terminal SlackBuild

[B. Watson]

On Sun, 11 Oct 2026, Pablo Romano wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I contacted the maintainer of gnome-terminal on September 27 to ask for permission to take over maintenance of the package, but I have not received a
> reply after two weeks. I would therefore like to ask SBo for permission to take over the package from the current maintainer.

The current maintainer is Bob Funk. He's an active maintainer, last
activity September 16, 2026, and he's responded to several emails
from me over the last 2 or 3 months. He maintains most of the GNOME
builds on SBo, and I don't feel good about giving one of his builds to
another maintainer without talking to him myself, or seeing a reply
from him on this mailing list.

> The current version of gnome-terminal cannot be updated further due to the limitations of Slackware 15.0. However, the SlackBuild itself can be
> improved considerably.
> 
> At present, it declares gnome-shell and nautilus as dependencies, which makes building the package take a very long time. Neither of them is actually
> required for the core gnome-terminal application; they are only needed for the optional GNOME Shell search provider and Nautilus extension.

That seems like a good idea to me. Bob, you listening?