[Mageia-dev] glib commit problems

Thu Jun 9 22:50:56 CEST 2011

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 were no longer maintained than i would agree that wouldnt be needed to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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