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>This section discusses the various pieces of GNOME, and what
    they do.</P
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>GNOME requires the libraries it does for two big
	reasons.  We wanted GNOME to have lots of useful features, and
	we didn't want to write everything from scratch.  By using
	common libraries for many of GNOME's features it allows GNOME
	to work better and more consistently with other non-GNOME
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