Retire glib and gtk+ 1.2 from rawhide?

[Athmane Madjoudj]

On 05/09/2010 03:17 PM, Chen Lei wrote:
>
>
> 2010/5/9 Andrea Musuruane <musuruan at gmail.com <mailto:musuruan at gmail.com>>
>
>     On F-12/x86_64:
>
>     $ repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps gtk+ |grep x86_64|sort
>     bubblemon-0:1.46-10.fc12.x86_64
>     crossfire-client-0:1.11.0-3.fc12.x86_64
>     dillo-0:0.8.6-11.fc12.x86_64
>     gcombust-1:0.1.55-16.x86_64
>     gcx-0:0.9.11-9.fc12.x86_64
>     gdk-pixbuf-1:0.22.0-38.fc12.x86_64
>     gnome-libs-1:1.4.2-15.fc12.x86_64
>     gsview-0:4.9-2.fc12.x86_64
>     gtk+-1:1.2.10-69.fc12.x86_64
>     gtk+-devel-1:1.2.10-69.fc12.x86_64
>     imlib-1:1.9.15-12.fc12.x86_64
>     justmoon-gtk-0:0.3.3-6.fc12.x86_64
>     lame-mp3x-0:3.98.2-3.fc11.x86_64
>     lame-mp3x-0:3.98.3-1.fc12.x86_64
>     lazarus-0:0.9.26.2-4.fc12.x86_64
>     libglade-1:0.17-24.fc12.x86_64
>     logjam-xmms-1:4.5.3-36.fc12.x86_64
>     logjam-xmms-1:4.5.3-37.fc12.x86_64
>     manedit-0:1.2.1-3.fc12.x86_64
>     purple-plugin_pack-pidgin-xmms-0:2.4.0-4.fc12.x86_64
>     putty-0:0.60-5.fc12.x86_64
>     qiv-0:2.0-11.fc12.x86_64
>     scigraphica-0:2.1.0-9.fc12.x86_64
>     siril-0:0.8-9.fc12.x86_64
>     smpeg-0:0.4.5-0.3.fc11.x86_64
>     soundtracker-0:0.6.8-8.fc12.x86_64
>     spacechart-0:0.9.5-5.fc12.x86_64
>     swami-0:0.9.4-6.fc12.x86_64
>     xarchon-0:0.50-10.fc12.x86_64
>     xconvers-0:0.8.3-7.fc12.x86_64
>     xdialog-0:2.3.1-5.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-1:1.2.11-9.20071117cvs.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-acme-0:0.4.3-11.x86_64
>     xmms-adplug-0:1.2-9.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-alarm-0:0.3.7-10.fc12.x86_64
>     xmmsctrl-0:1.8-6.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-esd-1:1.2.11-9.20071117cvs.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-faad2-1:2.7-1.fc11.x86_64
>     xmms-flac-0:1.1.4-6.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-flac-0:1.2.1-1.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-libs-1:1.2.11-9.20071117cvs.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-lirc-0:1.4-14.x86_64
>     xmms-mp3-0:1.2.11-3.20071117cvs.fc11.x86_64
>     xmms-mplayer-0:0.5-2.fc11.x86_64
>     xmms-musepack-0:1.2-8.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-normalize-0:0.7.7-5.fc11.x86_64
>     xmms-pulse-0:0.9.4-8.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-sid-0:0.8.0-0.8.beta19.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-speex-0:0.9.1-15.x86_64
>     xmms-uade-0:2.09-5.fc11.x86_64
>     xmms-xmp-0:2.7.1-1.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-xmp-0:3.1.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>     xmms-xosd-0:2.2.14-13.fc12.x86_64
>     xvattr-0:1.3-17.x86_64
>
>     It seems to me that removing gtk+ won't be an easy task :(
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Andrea.
>
> Most of  those applications are replaced, e.g. xmms2 for xmms,
> putty(svn) for putty 0.60, since it's already done by some other
> distributions, I think it's quite safe to retire gtk 1.2 completely from
> fedora. Also, considering fedora is a bleeding-edge distribution,
> keeping some many old applications with dead upstream for a long time
> seems strange.
> Regard.
> Chen Lei
>

some packages can use alternative toolkit.

eg:

Dillo [1] uses FLTK2.

[1] http://www.dillo.org/



-- 
Athmane Madjoudj