On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 23/05/13 00:20, Eric Bélanger wrote:
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Jan Alexander Steffens < jan.steffens@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings everypony,
Can we throw out glib 1, gtk 1 and qt3? These are seriously legacy libraries.
Check "pactree -rs glib" and "pactree -rs qt3" for dependent packages.
Cheers, Jan
Well gtk is a depends for imlib wich is required by fvwm, the WM I use. Unless imlib can work without gtk, I give a big -1 to removing glib/gtk from the repo.
Beside the fact that they are old, is there any reason to remove them from the repo? I maintain these threee packages and they are working well (no bug assigned). I don't see why they should be removed especially since many apps still depends on them.
Do many apps really still depend on qt3? I though even Debian managed to go qt3 free in the latest release...
Allan
A dozen. Then you have kdelibs3 and pyqt3 which are also dependencies of other packages. So we're probably talking about 20 qt3 packages.