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 _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
