[elrepo-devel] Add support for gtk2.12?

[Alan Bartlett]

On 27 July 2010 02:06, David Ranch <elrepo at trinnet.net> wrote:

> I was trying to compile up some various applications this weekend on
> Centos 5.5 only to find that GTK2.12 or greater is required.  Centos 5
> only has gtk2.10.  There are more and more applications that are making
> this requirement (GnuCash, etc.) and as such, they are officially
> dropping support for RHEL5/Centos5.  There are even long standing Redhat
> feature requests for this:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558788
>
>
> Is this something elrepo group might consider?

Hello David,

Thank you for contacting us. Unfortunately the provision of packages,
such as an updated version of the Gnome tool kit, do not fit within
the stated objectives [1] of the ELRepo Project --

"The ELRepo Project focuses on hardware related packages to enhance
your experience with Enterprise Linux. This includes filesystem
drivers, graphics drivers, network drivers, sound drivers, webcam and
video drivers."

Depending upon how much time and assistance you could devote to it,
your request may be able to be fulfilled by RPMforge [2]. Obviously I
cannot speak for the RPMforge packagers but feel that to approach them
could be a way forward.

Sorry that we are unable to provide you with a positive response.

Regards,
Alan.

[1] http://elrepo.org
[2] http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge