On 23/05/13 00:20, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Jan Alexander Steffens < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Greetings everypony, >> >> Can we throw out glib 1, gtk 1 and qt3? These are seriously legacy >> libraries. >> >> Check "pactree -rs glib" and "pactree -rs qt3" for dependent packages. >> >> Cheers, >> Jan >> > > Well gtk is a depends for imlib wich is required by fvwm, the WM I use. > Unless imlib can work without gtk, I give a big -1 to removing glib/gtk > from the repo. > > Beside the fact that they are old, is there any reason to remove them from > the repo? I maintain these threee packages and they are working well (no > bug assigned). I don't see why they should be removed especially since > many apps still depends on them.
Do many apps really still depend on qt3? I though even Debian managed to go qt3 free in the latest release... Allan
