On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 08:26:27AM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Terry Barnaby
<terry1(a)beam.ltd.uk> wrote:
> But its seems like a lot of people would like Gnome2 back. Why doesn't someone,
> who has a problem with it just rebuild and release Gnome2 for F15 (with a
> different package name) ?
Apparently it is already being done (sorry, forgot the new name of the
fork). However, AFAIK, it is far from straightforward to "rebuild and
release" it. Gnome 2 and 3 use different versions of the same set of
libraries, and cannot coexist on the same system easily.
The challenge then is to upgrade the Gnome 2 code to use the newer
libraries.
And Fedora
has a lot of Gnome3 dependencies, even if you do not install Gnome3
itself.
Such as?
So the old Gnome2 needs to be heavily patched at the source
code level, if it is to interoperate with the rest of the distro. This
is much more complicated than just rebuilding srpms.
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