Retire glib and gtk+ 1.2 from rawhide?

Ben Boeckel mathstuf at gmail.com
Mon May 10 14:49:30 UTC 2010


Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> * xdialog is build twice, once agains gtk+ and then against Gtk2. I think 
>  it would be nice to keep it that way, though you could also convince the 
>  current maintainer to keep only the Gtk2 stuff. also xdialog seems to be 
>  pretty dead upstream too, though I still haven't seen a perfect
>  substitute (zenity is close, but not compatible).

Not to mention that zenity drags in quite a few dependencies which, for
just a dialog box, I don't need nor want (zenity -> libnotify -> xfce
libs).

--Ben



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