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[RFC] GNOME 1.4 removal
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:26:34 -0500
- Subject: [RFC] GNOME 1.4 removal
The GNOME 1.4 libraries (namely libxml-1, ORBit-0.5, gdk-pixbuf-0.22,
gnome-libs-1.4) are now quite outdated and are being removed from both
the Debian and Gentoo distros. (I see Fedora still ships these, though.
Is there any way to compute reverse-deps from their package database?)
The last thing that I had relying on these has been obsoleted, and I'm
not aware of anything else still relying on them, so I'm ready to drop
this cruft at last.
Note that glib-1.2 and gtk+-1.2 aren't going anywhere yet, as there are
still a few things out there relying on it, including singular-surf in
our distro. (Hopefully this still won't be necessary by the time gtk+-3
comes out next year.)
So if there are no objections, I plan to remove the GNOME 1.4 libraries
from release-2/ in a few weeks.
Yaakov
Cygwin/X