The following is a list of notes on building MATE on Slackware -current: Sun Mar 24 04:48:35 UTC 2013 Pat just added dconf to Slackware -current and dconf is included as a dependency package in the /base directory. So, if you are building MATE on -current with Pat's new dconf installed, you don't need to build the dconf package in the MATE SlackBuild repository. And if you are using the mate-build-bash.sh script, then please edit that script and remove line 52: dconf \ And then proceed with running the script. Please report any issues. Thanks!