Everything seems to be fine. In fact, the system seems snappier, although it could be because I removed a bit of cruft while I was resolving dependencies. I’ll have to look more at F-Spot for photos and Tomboy for note-taking. I also went ahead and upgraded SwiftFox to 2.0, using the install script at their site.
If you haven’t seen it already, Automatix2 is quite useful (they used to include swiftfox in their repos).