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From: Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME 1.x and GNOME 1.x dependent package masking
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:59:12
Message-Id: 455638A4.3020404@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME 1.x and GNOME 1.x dependent package masking by Paul de Vrieze
1 Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > On Friday 10 November 2006 16:28, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 08:56 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Ok, the list definitely isn't accurate. If there is a legitimate reason
7 >>> to mask sylpheed-claws-1.x you also have to mask it's reverse deps.
8 >>> However I'm still waiting for the explanation why it is on that list.
9 >>> (I don't mind if it's masked for a good reason, but I need to know
10 >>> that reason).
11 >>>
12 >> There is no immediate reason, of course. However, gtk+-1 and glib-1
13 >> will be removed as soon after the big cleanup as is feasible, and
14 >> sylpheed-clasws-1.x is a gtk+-1 app, and therefore must go as well. I
15 >> didn't generate the list, but my understanding was that it was intended
16 >> to include all packages with a hard dep on gtk+-1, in addition to gnome
17 >> 1.x.
18 >>
19 >
20 > Gtk1 actually is broken for --as-needed. It's linking is broken thanks to a
21 > libtool which refuses to link against a non-installed libgdk.
22 >
23 >
24 I think gtk+-1.2.10-r12 solved this problem.
25
26 Hope you guys aren't seriously considering dropping gtk+1. As long as we
27 have packages that depend on it (packages that has nothing to do with
28 gnome herd/team), gtk+1 should stay in the tree.

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