On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> I'd like to use this forum to attempt to get a straight answer from
> Redhat on this one :)
First of all, I'm not responsible for the enlightenment RPM, so I'm not
the best person to pick this up.
> Redhat 6.2 is shipping with an extremely, painfully out of date version
> of enlightenment (http://www.enlightenment.org)
This is intentional: 0.16.x adds a load of bloat^H^H^H^H^Hfeatures that
doesn't make sense in the GNOME environment (and Red Hat Linux uses
enlightenment only in GNOME by default).
0.16 uses up more memory than 0.15 without adding many things that make
sense when you're running a desktop environment on top of it (all the
window managers' menus etc are superfluous when you're running KDE or
GNOME).
> I have read the explanation on the site, which is basically "we couldn't
> be bothered to configure it, so we stuck with the old version", and am
> rather annoyed as a result :)
Adapting the load of patches we're applying to 0.15 to 0.16 being quite a
lot of extra work.
> Since when has Redhat's policy been "if it won't fit out of the box, we
> won't tweak it or ask for it to be tweaked"?
The policy is "We ship the version that we think makes most sense to
ship".
> Explanation from a Redhat person please? Why were we specifically
> targetted not to get our latest version into the distro? Did we do
> something wrong somehow?
A lot of people could complain about the same thing - we're not shipping
XFree86 4.0 (for obvious reasons), readline 4.x (binary incompatibility),
gcc 2.95.x (binary incompatibility), tcl/tk 8.3 (binary incompatibility)
or kernel 2.3.99 (for obvious reasons) either.
> And finally, every support request for 0.15.5 that comes from a redhat
> 6.2 user will be forwarded to this list.
Feel free to do that; better yet, put them to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla so the developers responsible for it
can fix them.
LLaP
bero
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