I'm enterely agree with you, glib 1.2 is obsoletes and useless.During a discussion on IRC, I realized that glib 1.2 had been imported in the svn repository http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/glib/ This library has been obsolete for years now, and I'm not sure at all there is any "interesting" app still needing it. I'd really recommend trying hard to keep glib 1.2 away from the repository to avoid having really old and obsolete packages that noone will use anyway. This would probably save some maintainance time to some people.