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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by pjc50 on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:24AM (#18846495)
This is not as easy as it sounds, because funny things happen if you ship your own libc - I remember last time I tried this there were problems with PAM and name services. But that was a number of years ago.

Can you ship with your own version of GNOME different from the currently running one?

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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by plq on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:56AM (#18846929)
> Can you ship with your own version of GNOME different from the currently running one?

I'm confused. GNOME is a desktop environment. It implements a task bar, a control panel, a way to set your desktop wallpaper etc. Why would you ship GNOME?

Maybe you meant shipping a proprietary application that uses a GTK version that is different than the OS-provided GNOME uses?

If so, of course you can. GTK is a bunch of shared objects that generate system calls, X messages, etc. It has no reason to interfere with the OS-provided GTK as long as it's got everything it needs in your bundle.

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