linux gnome libraries etc.

[Boris Samorodov]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:43:58 +0100 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 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 its because our linux-pango is really outdated and does not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.

So far I know one idea why it looks bad to me (to have one port) and
why I prefer to speak about two ports (actually it means dubbling all
linux infrastructure ports):
. we won't have packages for non-defaults.


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