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<p><span>Hello,</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>I have prepared and tested an alternative SlackBuild that
disables those two optional integrations by default, removing
gnome-shell and nautilus as mandatory dependencies and greatly
reducing the overall build time. The SlackBuild still allows
either integration to be enabled optionally at build time for
users who have gnome-shell and/or nautilus installed.</span></p>
<p><span>The resulting package builds and works correctly on
Slackware 15.0 without either dependency installed, and it
passes both sbolint and sbopkglint.</span></p>
<p><span>I am forwarding below the message I originally sent to the
current gnome-terminal maintainer.</span></p>
<p><span>Thank you.</span></p>
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<td>gnome-terminal SlackBuild</td>
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<td>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:07:31 +0200</td>
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<td>Pablo Romano <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:promano7@hotmail.com"><promano7@hotmail.com></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bobfunk11@gmail.com">bobfunk11@gmail.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bobfunk11@gmail.com"><bobfunk11@gmail.com></a></td>
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Hi Bob,</div>
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I'm writing about the gnome-terminal SlackBuild in
SlackBuilds.org.</div>
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I've been testing the current 3.43.90 build on an up-to-date
Slackware 15.0 system. I found that the gnome-shell and nautilus
dependencies are only needed for the optional GNOME Shell search
provider and Nautilus extension.</div>
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I have prepared and tested a small revision that disables those
two optional integrations by default, removes gnome-shell and
nautilus from REQUIRES, and still allows users to enable them at
build time with NAUTILUS=yes and/or SEARCH_PROVIDER=yes.</div>
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The resulting package builds and installs successfully without
either gnome-shell or nautilus installed, passes both sbolint
and sbopkglint, and works correctly with Slackware 15.0's stock
VTE 0.66.2.</div>
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I would also like to maintain gnome-terminal going forward. In
addition to keeping the Slackware 15.0 SlackBuild maintained, I
plan to prepare a SlackBuild for the current stable
gnome-terminal 3.60 release for Slackware-current and contribute
the necessary version to Ponce's slackbuilds repository. I need
to be the maintainer on SBo to submit a pull request to Ponce's
repository.</div>
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Would you be OK with me taking over maintainership of
gnome-terminal on SlackBuilds.org?</div>
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Of course, I would retain your existing copyright notice in the
SlackBuild.</div>
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Thanks for your work maintaining the package and the other GNOME
components in SBo.</div>
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Best regards,<br>
Pablo</div>
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