On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 08:26:27AM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Terry Barnaby <ter...@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. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/
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