Hi all, I was looking at what impact removing the GLib-1/GTK+-1 libraries would have on the packages in the book that actually use those old libs. I was actually hoping that there would be breakage, and then there would be no choice.
Unfortunately, GLib and GTK build and work just fine on modern toolchains, and XMMS, GSView, LAME, and libdv all build fine against those libs. All four of those packages use only GTK+-1 for building the graphical portions of the packages. Three of the packages have updates (XMMS, GSView, and LAME) which eliminates having to use patches to build properly. Because there is zero maintenance with keeping these packages in the book, I say we leave them all in until after the upcoming release, and at that time remove GLib/GTK, XMMS-1, and GSView. I don't know what replacement is in the book for a Ghostscript Viewer, but XPDF and the Poppler derivatives probably can handle it. I know most are in favor of yanking them all out now, but there really is no reason to, other than just to do it. I can do the XMMS, GSView, and LAME updates in 15 minutes time, and then there is nothing else left to do maintenance-wise with any of the apps. Who knows, there may be somebody that doesn't need to deal with the GLib2/GTK+2/Cairo/Pango/ATK stack for anything, but he might use XMMS as it is so lightweight compared to any other MP3 player. Thoughts? -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.24] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 14:15:00 up 2 days, 3:21, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
