I came across the following link: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Linux/Runtime_Requirements
They are basically wanting to drop support for older libraries. From a developer's standpoint, I can understand not wanting to support older stuff, but this seems to be too aggressive to me. The libraries are: * GTK+ 2.10.x Jul 06 * GLib 2.12.x Aug 06 * GNOME 2.16.x Sep 06 (which libs?) * Pango 1.14.x Aug 06 * Cairo 1.4.x Mar 07 * xorg (libX11) 1.0.x Dec 05 * dbus 1.0.x Nov 06 * hal 0.5.8 Sep 06 * libjpeg v6b Jun 01 * libpng 1.2.x Sep 01 * zlib 1.2.3 Jul 05 What I have done is go to the source sites and found when the .0 release of each of the above versions was released. I really don't have any problem with any of these for my LFS/BLFS systems, but any date later than 18 months ago seems too recent to me for a general release. After all, it takes several months for the releases to actually get into a distro release. The lack of support for distros with a cairo release of only last month seems to be the worst offender. Of course, this is not a problem for BLFS as we have at least all of these versions in the book now. What do you think? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
