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

[David Ranch]

Hello Everyone,

I appreciate  Alan Barlett's point on the focus of the elrepo group and 
it's primary focus on hardware.  I can also see Dag Wieers point on not 
wanting to mess with a base package in an Enterprise distro.  
Unfortunately, I see RHEL/CENTOS 5 having a shorter life because of some 
of some critical packages that are just too old.   Maybe that release 
was tied up in a time of significant technology shift.  It happens.  I 
won't bring up the usual distro war comments but I would prefer to stay 
on a Redhat-style system but there just isn't any long life "desktop" 
Redhat versions anymore.  Upgrading through the various Fedora releases 
every 18 months to continue getting security fixes is not something I 
want to do.

Anyway, thank you for your comments.  RHEL / CENTOS 6 might be an option 
for now but for desktop related functionality, I'm coming to the 
conclusion that Redhat needs to get a bit (but not much) more aggressive 
on some of the versions they select and stick with for their major releases.

--David

Dag Wieers wrote:
> 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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