I was planning on building GNOME over the weekend. But as it turns out, it's a lot more complicated than I assumed. Refer the following figure if you doubt me. Shudder. meta-gnome-desktop gnome-nettool gnomemeeting sound-juicer gnome-backgrounds gnome-media meta-nautilus totem gnome-user-docs libmusicbrainz gnome-control-center meta-gnome-core nautilus-cd-burner gnome-system-tools file-roller 2.1.1 gedit libgail-gnome gnome-utils gnome-applets nautilus gnome-netstatus evolution-exchange gst-plugins gnopernicus eel bug-buddy libxklavier gnome-panel gucharmap epiphany system-tools-backends evolution evolution-webcal rv: BRANCH-GSTREAMER-0_8 gstreamer zenity gok gnome-mag eog dasher evince gnome-games gnome-terminal procman gnome-session gnome-menus gnome-desktop gnome-keyring-manager gnome-python/gnome-python gtkhtml iso-codes gconf-editor yelp evolution-data-server gcalctool vino gnome-volume-manager rv: BRANCH-GSTREAMER-0_8 librsvg mozilla at-spi gnome-speech gob libwnck libgtop gnome-themes libgnomeui gnome-doc-utils gnome-python/pygtk libsoup rv: gnome-2-12-branch rv: MOZILLA_1_7_BRANCH gnutls gtk-engines startup-notification libgnomeprintui gail gnome-keyring libbonoboui gnome-python/pyorbit 1.2.6 libtasn1 opencdk gtksourceview libgsf gnome-icon-theme libgnomecanvas metacity libgnome 0.2.15 0.5.7 hicolor-icon-theme libgcrypt libgnomeprint vte esound gnome-vfs libglade 0.8 1.2.1 audiofile howl libgpg-error libart_lgpl libbonobo gconf hal 0.2.6 1.0.0 1.1 gtk+ poppler libgnomecups libcroco ORBit2 dbus rv: gtk-2-8 pango atk shared-mime-info desktop-file-utils libIDL rv: pango-1-10 glib cairo Xft rv: glib-2-8 fontconfig Xrender gtk-doc scrollkeeper Render gnome-mime-data 0.3.14 intltool libxslt gnome-common gnome-xml 1.