several Rawhide questions

[David]

Is it correct to say Rawhide updated today from version 33-0.3 to
33-0.4, and what does that mean ?

Or does that update just mean the repo was renamed or renumbered,
or something like that ?

Is 33.-0.4 noticeably better than 33-0.3, or are the tiny incremental
improvements and regressions nearly impossible to notice without
a magnifying glass ?

Question 4 & 5:

I have only one gtk2 package on my system and it seems to be
related to the anaconda installer.

gtk2 version 2.24.32-7.fc32

Is this package for those users not installing Gnome ?

Will it hurt to delete gtk2 if I am using the Gnome DE, or does
GIMP and other things need it ?     I am using flatpaks for most
of my additional software.

Question or observation 6:

I assume the reason, that the backgrounds keep updating
in Rawhide ( yet remain identical to version 32 ), is simply due
to lack of man/woman-power.   Right ?

David Locklear
Live on The Edge - Live in Rawhide on Hardware

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 02:14:03AM -0500, David wrote:
> Is it correct to say Rawhide updated today from version 33-0.3 to
> 33-0.4, and what does that mean ?

Rawhide is unversioned, so that's not correct. The fedora-release package
version just indicates what OS # it will become.

The package release # (in this case the 0.4) just indicates changes in the
fedora-release package itself. It isn't meant to indicate anything about the
distro as a whole. You can see these changes
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-release/commits/master.
> I have only one gtk2 package on my system and it seems to be
> related to the anaconda installer.
> gtk2 version 2.24.32-7.fc32
> Is this package for those users not installing Gnome ?

It's for whatever uses it.
> Will it hurt to delete gtk2 if I am using the Gnome DE, or does
> GIMP and other things need it ?     I am using flatpaks for most
> of my additional software.

Well, try `sudo dnf remove gtk2` (and don't say yes) and you'll get a list
of everything that would go away without it. On my system, it's a lot of
packages I use (firefox, inkscape).
> I assume the reason, that the backgrounds keep updating
> in Rawhide ( yet remain identical to version 32 ), is simply due
> to lack of man/woman-power.   Right ?

Basically. The plan going forward is to update the version in Rawhide
shortly after the branch happens, so after F33 branches off in August
(https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-33/f-33-key-tasks.html), and
Rawhide becomes future F34, we'll actually have the future F34 wallpaper in
Rawhide.