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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 06:07:38PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 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 Once again, the issue of outdated stuff giving us the PITA has been  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.

I agree, keep those libraries and apps that are used by other spells,
and remove the rest if it has a clear newer replacement. For spells
without real replacement (not sure if any of those are still around), a
list that could be discussed would be good.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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