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Hello Everyone,<br>
<br>
I appreciate Alan Barlett's </tt><tt>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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
--David<br>
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Dag Wieers wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:alpine.LRH.2.00.1007271200000.30265@pikachu.3ti.be"
type="cite">On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Alan Bartlett wrote:
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">On 27 July 2010 02:06, David Ranch
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:elrepo@trinnet.net"><elrepo@trinnet.net></a> wrote:
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I was trying to compile up some various
applications this weekend on
<br>
Centos 5.5 only to find that GTK2.12 or greater is required. Centos 5
<br>
only has gtk2.10. There are more and more applications that are making
<br>
this requirement (GnuCash, etc.) and as such, they are officially
<br>
dropping support for RHEL5/Centos5. There are even long standing
Redhat
<br>
feature requests for this:
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558788">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558788</a>
<br>
<br>
Is this something elrepo group might consider?
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Hello David,
<br>
<br>
Thank you for contacting us. Unfortunately the provision of packages,
<br>
such as an updated version of the Gnome tool kit, do not fit within
<br>
the stated objectives [1] of the ELRepo Project --
<br>
<br>
"The ELRepo Project focuses on hardware related packages to enhance
<br>
your experience with Enterprise Linux. This includes filesystem
<br>
drivers, graphics drivers, network drivers, sound drivers, webcam and
<br>
video drivers."
<br>
<br>
Depending upon how much time and assistance you could devote to it,
<br>
your request may be able to be fulfilled by RPMforge [2]. Obviously I
<br>
cannot speak for the RPMforge packagers but feel that to approach them
<br>
could be a way forward.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
Kind regards,
<br>
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