Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 08:26:27AM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Terry Barnaby <terry1 at beam.ltd.uk> wrote:
> > But its seems like a lot of people would like Gnome2 back. Why doesn't someone,
> > who has a problem with it just rebuild and release Gnome2 for F15 (with a
> > different package name) ?
> 
> Apparently it is already being done (sorry, forgot the new name of the
> fork). However, AFAIK, it is far from straightforward to "rebuild and
> release" it. Gnome 2 and 3 use different versions of the same set of
> libraries, and cannot coexist on the same system easily.

The challenge then is to upgrade the Gnome 2 code to use the newer
libraries.

> And Fedora
> has a lot of Gnome3 dependencies, even if you do not install Gnome3
> itself.

Such as?

> So the old Gnome2 needs to be heavily patched at the source
> code level, if it is to interoperate with the rest of the distro. This
> is much more complicated than just rebuilding srpms.

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