[SM-Discuss] Removal of Gnome 1

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Sat Aug 23 21:07:38 EDT 2008


Quoting "Thomas Orgis" <thomas-forum at orgis.org>:

> Hello mages.
>
> Once again, the issue of outdated stuff giving us the PITA has been  
> risen in discussion... I'm making this one offical:
>
> I hereby speak out for the removal (deprecation) of all Gnome 1.x  
> specific spells.
>
> I'd like to keep gtk+1 for various unrelated apps, but the base  
> gnome stuff is just old, abandoned, and thus broken.
> We don't keep kde2 around... and kde3 will also vanish at some time, I guess.
>
> Opinions? Plans?

Definitely. :) Just be sure to not remove any packages which are  
dependencies (optional or otherwise) for other packages.

-sandalle

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