Danek Duvall wrote: > 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.
A graphical configuration application I wrote for an Adventure Game engine was never ported to Gtk2, it remains one of those annoying apps that still uses gtk 1.2 :-) -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
