2011/6/9 Anne nicolas <[email protected]>: > > > 2011/6/9 Dexter Morgan <[email protected]> >> >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Zé <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 2011/6/9 Christiaan Welvaart <[email protected]>: >> >> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Zé wrote: >> >> >> >>> 2011/6/9 Dexter Morgan <[email protected]>: >> >>>> >> >>>> For what do you need glib ? >> >>> >> >>> xmms needs ORbit, that needs glib, and AFAIK these are still >> >>> maintained apps, and xmms is still a needed buildrequire needed by >> >>> kdenetwork (its optional but still exists), so i dont understand the >> >>> hurry to drop these applications. >> >> >> >> But what feature does it provide for kdenetwork? You can use e.g. >> >> audacious >> >> (gtk2 version) instead of xmms itself. I don't know how compatible >> >> audacious >> >> is, though. >> >> >> >> >> >> Christiaan >> >> >> > >> > kopete/CMakeLists.txt:macro_log_feature(XMMS_FOUND "XMMS" "X >> > MultiMedia System development libraries" "http://www.xmms.org"; FALSE >> > "" "Used by the Kopete nowlistening plugin to support the XMMS >> > player.") >> > >> > But this isnt the main issue, these packages should be provided by >> > mageia (they are provided by the main linux distros), if the packages >> > were no longer maintained than i would agree that wouldnt be needed to >> > put them available in mageia, but thats not the case. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Zé >> > >> >> "provided by" is != from "maintained". >> >> if you look on fedora : >> >> xmms-1.2.11-12.20071117cvs.fc15.src.rpm >> >> since 2007 this is only rebuilded and fixed for the build but we can't >> call this "maintained" upstream. >> >> >> Gentoo have removed xmms >> Ubuntu have removed xmms too >> >> So please stop FUDing to "force" to push the packages you want. > > btw please have a look here > http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RemoveOldLibs > It's not only Mageia's fact
Yes i agree but i dont think should be for now but in a near future, e.g. ORbit its currently maintained apps that depend on glib. > -- > Anne > http://www.mageia.org > -- Zé
