Re: [orca-list] Mate Desktop, Building

["Rob" <captinlogic gmail com>]

Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual hypra fr> wrote:
> Indeed, building MATE is a hard task for LFS. I dont know the status of
> this desktop in the BLFS book. But MATE is a Gnome2 fork, and GNOME2 was
> a pain to be built: hundreds of packages.

BLFS isn't interested in Mate, they told me. They have XFCE, Gnome, and KDE. Gentoo is a good idea though. 
I'll check there.