On Sunday 02 April 2006 16:09, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Sunday 02 April 2006 21:28, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > it should be more the question, if there's anyone supporting > > > Gtk1 upstream with regards to security issues etc.. > > > > and when such a situation arises, the solution may to simply drop the > > optional support. such a situation has not arose, so using such > > hypothetical examples is meaningless. > > The problem is that no one is working on the code, so the chances for black > hats to find something they can abuse for a long time are to consider. The > situation is always given. It's just the question, when and if the good > guys get to know about it.
lets apply the same logic to all things unmaintained ! besides, you're talking about removing GTK1 completely ... this thread is talking about deprecating the gtk2 USE flag the GTK1 lib is hopefully going to live on much much longer than the gtk2 USE flag -mike -- [email protected] mailing list
