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

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Alan Bartlett wrote:

> 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.

I can speak for RPMforge ! And while I would like to have newer Gnome 
applications, I think we should leave RHEL5 where it is and look forward 
to the upcoming RHEL6.

It's often unwise (or very complicated) to replace or add newer base 
libraries to enterprise distributions. And as a consequence you will often 
find older (but still useful) applications on RHEL5, RHEL4 or RHEL3.

Kind regards,
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