Madeningly, it is not included with Fedora, or Mandrake. Fortunately,
on Mandrake at least, it is easy to install with urpmi (assuming
correct repositories are set up). I assume it can also easily be
installed on Fedora with yum.

Chris Anderson

On 7/7/05, Ken Siersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> David Necas (Yeti) wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:37:03PM -0400, David Morse wrote:
> >
> >
> >>What's up with gtkglarea?  The version in Fedora Core 4 has its most
> >>recent ChangeLog entry in 2002.  The author's page for it is 404.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >GtkGLArea is effectively dead.  GtkGLExt is a much better
> >replacement for Gtk+2 apps.
> >
> >
> >
> >>Yet its popular enough to be in every distro.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >It's more like ,most distros include it as a legacy package
> >because some apps still depend on it`.
> >
> >Yeti
> >
> >
> >--
> >A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> >Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> >A: Top-posting.
> >Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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> I think a better question is why isn't GtkGLExt included in more
> distros?  I haven't seen it in any SuSE distro or RH EL 4.  Is it
> included in Fedora or others?
> 
> -Ken
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