On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 18:12 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
Realistically we will not be able to remove gtk+ from the default
install anytime soon because too many proprietary applications will
depend on it for many years to come. However it is good to move
applications to gtk2 whenever possible, because it makes i18n much less
problematic.
Actually, there are a couple of things here:
1) The GNOME 1.x library stack. I think we're close to being able to
lose this and move it to a compat lib status, similar to compat-glibc,
etc. Mark it as deprecated and actually get rid of them within a
release or two. The amount of new software being released still using
these libraries is small and people can always get the old ones
2) GTK+ 1.2. This will probably stick around in the distribution
longer, but I don't think that it necessarily needs to be installed by
default.
We have to be a little bit more aggressive with losing some backwards
compatibility packages or else we're going to be at 6 CDs and 2 DVDs
before much longer :)
Jeremy