[Mageia-dev] icewm-gnome: is it still supported?

You-Cheng Hsieh yochenhsieh at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 03:29:43 CEST 2012


2012/4/5 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 10:47:33AM +0800, You-Cheng Hsieh wrote:
>> Is icewm-gnome still usable in cauldron? I have to install many gnome2
>> libraries in order to build it, but I cannot get it working. On the
>> other hand, gnome2 libraries are not maintained by upstream...
>>
>> Should we provide it for Mageia 2?
>
> Suggest drop it unless it is ported to not use those old libraries (lots
> of functionality has been replaced by things in gtk+, etc). Don't forget
> that if you import, you're the maintainer ;)
>
I've set %define with_gnome 0 in icewm.spec locally, icewm-gnome won't be built.
Should I set Obsoletes: %{name}-gnome for icewm-light?
Does icewm-gnome need to be removed during update/upgrade if we drop it?

Thanks.


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