On Sat, 9 May 2009, Ardhan Madras wrote: > One of GTK+ dependency is GLib, each GTK+ version has it's GLib > version dependency too, if you try to compile a newer GTK+ > version in a system that has not meet it's minimal requirement > of GLib version then they will complain. > > You tried to update GLib on your distro using a package manager, > you will got nothing to do because your distro will not broke > all dependency that it already made. Moving from 2.4.0 to 2.12.3 > is not trivial, this will break many applications that already > installed...
I suppose you're right that the FC 6 package manager will refuse to update GLib beyond 2.4, but the argument given seems wrong: aren't the even-numbered GLib releases all ABI-compatible? That is, updating from 2.4 to 2.12 shouldn't break anything. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
