On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 05:18:10PM -0600, Brian Cameron wrote:

> 
> Alan:
> 
> Regarding the SUNWGlib and SUNWGtk packages:
> 
> >> Right, but we were wondering what the pacakages are used for, and who 
> >> delivers them.  Do you know?
> > 
> > They deliver from SFW.   In the past they were used by Netscape 6/7 and
> > I think even early Mozilla 1.x builds in the days before the GNOME 2.0
> > bundling with S9U4.   I don't know if anything current needs them.
> 
> Yes, now that you mention it, that sounds right.  I am suspicious that
> we might not need these packages anymore in Nevada or Indiana since
> I don't think mozilla is a part of our distro anymore.

They're there for the many (though slowly becoming fewer) number of apps
which never bothered to port to gtk+2.  They're small and unobtrusive.
They needn't be installed if nothing depends on them, but we should keep
them for a while longer.

Danek
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