This package contains the basic libraries for the GNOME 2.x Desktop platform and it includes non-GUI-related libraries that are needed to run GNOME.
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The GNOME Virtual File System provides an abstraction to common file system operations like reading, writing and copying files, listing directories and so on. It also provides support for reading and writing files on windows shares (SMB) to applications using GNOME VFS. GNOME-VFS is extensible and usable from any application on the GNOME desktop.