[Mageia-dev] glib commit problems

[Anne nicolas]

2011/6/9 Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Zé <mmodem00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2011/6/9 Christiaan Welvaart <cjw at daneel.dyndns.org>:
> >> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Zé wrote:
> >>
> >>> 2011/6/9 Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com>:
> >>>>
> >>>> For what do you need glib ?
> >>>
> >>> xmms needs ORbit, that needs glib, and AFAIK these are still
> >>> maintained apps, and xmms is still a needed buildrequire needed by
> >>> kdenetwork (its optional but still exists), so i dont understand the
> >>> hurry to drop these applications.
> >>
> >> But what feature does it provide for kdenetwork? You can use e.g.
> audacious
> >> (gtk2 version) instead of xmms itself. I don't know how compatible
> audacious
> >> is, though.
> >>
> >>
> >>    Christiaan
> >>
> >
> > kopete/CMakeLists.txt:macro_log_feature(XMMS_FOUND "XMMS" "X
> > MultiMedia System development libraries" "http://www.xmms.org" FALSE
> > "" "Used by the Kopete nowlistening plugin to support the XMMS
> > player.")
> >
> > But this isnt the main issue, these packages should be provided by
> > mageia (they are provided by the main linux distros), if the packages
> > were no longer maintained than i would agree that wouldnt be needed to
> > put them available in mageia, but thats not the case.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Zé
> >
>
> "provided by" is != from "maintained".
>
> if you look on fedora :
>
> xmms-1.2.11-12.20071117cvs.fc15.src.rpm
>
> since 2007 this is only rebuilded and fixed for the build but we can't
> call this "maintained" upstream.
>
>
> Gentoo have removed xmms
> Ubuntu have removed xmms too
>
> So please stop FUDing to "force" to push the packages you want.
>

btw please have a look here
http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RemoveOldLibs

It's not only Mageia's fact

-- 
Anne
http://www.mageia.org
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