and Gconf2 ? Re: Let's retire original glib and gtk+

Sorry, didn't see this when it first came through. On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 4:18 AM Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com&gt; wrote: > I propose, for F36, the retire of Gconf2 (1) > > dnf repoquery --disablerepo='*' \ > --enablerepo={rpmfusion-{non,}free-,}rawhide --recursive \ > --whatrequires "libgconf*" --qf "%{repoid} %{sourcerpm}"  -q [snip] > rawhide frama-c-22.0-10.fc35.src.rpm > rawhide ocaml-cairo-0.6.1-11.fc35.src.rpm > rawhide ocaml-camlimages-4.2.5-28.fc35.src.rpm > rawhide ocaml-dose3-5.0.1-32.20200502git24316fe.fc35.src.rpm > rawhide ocaml-lablgtk-2.18.11-6.fc35.src.rpm > rawhide ocaml-ocamlgraph-1.8.8-25.fc35.src.rpm > rawhide ocaml-ocamlnet-4.1.8-4.fc35.src.rpm > rawhide ocaml-xmlrpc-light-0.6.1-61.fc35.src.rpm These packages are very useful, and have active upstreams.  They are all in the process of switching from gtk2 to gtk3, but haven't completed the transition yet.  The ocaml-cairo package, for example, is an OCaml interface to cairo.  It has a cairo-gtk subpackage for rendering cairo on a gtk2 canvas, and a cairo-pango subpackage for using pango with cairo in OCaml programs.  The ocaml-lablgtk3 package, which is an OCaml interface to gtk3, depends on the non-gtk2 parts of ocaml-cairo. We might be able to excise the gtk2 parts of these packages, but it would not be simple, nor something that could be done overnight.  A little more time for the upstreams to make more progress would be greatly appreciated.