[Mageia-dev] glib commit problems

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2011/6/9 Anne nicolas <ennael at mageia.org>:
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> 2011/6/9 Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com>
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>> 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:
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>> >>> 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
>> >>
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>> > 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 were no longer maintained than i would agree that wouldnt be needed to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
>> >
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>> "provided by" is != from "maintained".
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>> if you look on fedora :
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>> xmms-1.2.11-12.20071117cvs.fc15.src.rpm
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>> since 2007 this is only rebuilded and fixed for the build but we can't
>> call this "maintained" upstream.
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>> Gentoo have removed xmms
>> Ubuntu have removed xmms too
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>> So please stop FUDing to "force" to push the packages you want.
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> btw please have a look here
> http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RemoveOldLibs
> It's not only Mageia's fact

Yes i agree but i dont think should be for now but in a near future,
e.g. ORbit its currently maintained apps that depend on glib.

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