linux gnome libraries etc.

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> (from Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:35:21 +0300):

> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:14:08 +0100 Roman Divacky wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 02:41:09AM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:
>> > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:47:17 +0100 Roman Divacky wrote:
>> >
>> > > I noticed that linux-pango is version 1.10 (latest is 1.18),
>> > > linux-glib2 is 2.6 (latest is 2.14) etc. etc.
>> >
>> > linux-glib2 is glib2-2.6.6-1, the lastest available for FedoraCore-4:
>> >   
>> http://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/glib2-2.6.6-1.i386.rpm
>> >
>> > > I tried to run firefox 3 beta 3 under linux emulation and
>> > > it crashed because of some missing symbol in pango and I think
>> > > its because our linux-pango is really outdated and does not
>> > > meet the minimal requirements for firefox3.
>> >
>> > > why havent these ports been updated?
>> >
>> > The port won't ever be updated. More likely a new port, say
>> > linux-f7-glib2 will appear after the default osrelease is switched
>> > to 2.6.x.

I'm not happy with creating a new port, but maybe it is the only good  
solution we can do. I didn't think much about installing a different  
version depending on the default linux port, but I don't like this  
idea much, as it may result in a nightmare. Informed opinions (with a  
list of bad things and why it doesn't matter) in favour of this are  
welcome.

>> ah.... good to know.. will there be some sort of "update from fc4   
>> to fc7" script?
>
> I need to think about it. Maybe standard portupgrade/else would be
> enough.

I think an UPDATING entry will be enough.

Bye,
Alexander.

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