It might be that the 700MB size limit is just an excuse to dump GNOME 3 and not the most important reason. Given the conservativeness of Debian releases, I woul

It might be that the 700MB size limit is just an excuse to dump GNOME 3 and not the most important reason. Given the conservativeness of Debian releases, I wouldn't be surprised if the Debian team decided to wait for GNOME 3 to become more mature. Remember, Debian shipped a stable release with KDE 3 even after KDE 4 was released.