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 were no longer maintained than i would agree that wouldnt be needed to 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 -- Anne http://www.mageia.org
