Hello,
just curious if you know the time-frame for 4.10 hitting the SL in
packaged form :) ?
Thank you
AZ
Andrew Z wrote:
> just curious if you know the time-frame for 4.10 hitting the SL in
> packaged form :) ?
Probably no time soon, since it apparently requires newer versions of
Gtk+, Glib etc than exist in SL 6.
http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building
Xfce 4.10 requires Gtk+ 2.20 and Gli
Xfce 4.10 requires Gtk+ 2.20 and Glib 2.24
SL6 has 2.18 and 2.22.
This sort of thing is why you exchange "cutting edge" for stability.
Its the same issue with moving KDE ahead to > 4.3: a lot of the core
distro would have to go along with it.
The dependency breakages (or,
.
http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building
Xfce 4.10 requires Gtk+ 2.20 and Glib 2.24
SL6 has 2.18 and 2.22.
This sort of thing is why you exchange "cutting edge" for stability. Its
the same issue with moving KDE ahead to > 4.3: a lot of the core distro
would have to go along with it.
T
On 05/31/2012 10:38 AM, Andrew Z wrote:
Hello,
just curious if you know the time-frame for 4.10 hitting the SL in
packaged form :) ?
Thank you
AZ
With xfce making its way into EPEL, we are letting the packaging happen
up there.
Pat
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