On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:47:33AM +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
On 4/28/20 22:15, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 08:01:31AM +0200, Dan Čermák wrote:
> > Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com> writes:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 12:39 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > > > GConf2
> > >
> > > GConf2 is orphan, why ? no maintainers or a task force to be removed ?
> >
> > GConf2 has been deprecated for well over a decade and afaik unmaintained
> > for nearly half a decade. Thus: please just remove it from your
> > dependencies and use gsettings instead (the upstream replacement).
> >
> > Many packages might actually not require it at all: emacs was pulling it
> > in, but it works just fine without it and with gsettings instead.
>
> Yeah, I am happy to let GConf2 go into the night... thunar-vfs depends
> on it, but thats just the old vfs layer Thunar used to use kept around
> for compatibility. It should go also.
I agree; it's time to let GConf2 and the rest of the GNOME 2 libraries go.
If anyone disagrees and should pick it up, please only keep it for F33 and
then retire it in F34, so that we don't keep the old baggage in the distro
forever.
...if we're talking old baggage, we've not even got rid of the
even older GTK 1.2.x packages yet :-(
Regards,
Daniel
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