Re: libxml v1 dependencies (was: Re: multilib fun - devel packages)

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On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 09:38:55AM +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:57 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> > I think your setting yourself up for only one possible answer here.  I
> > wouldn't say it's about the functionality.  It's a question of
> > priorities.  In this case, is keeping the functionality worth the cost
> > of carrying most of the Gtk 1.2 + Old Ass Gnome stack?  I think that's
> > how we need to frame the question.
> 
> Of course, we do basically nothing with Gtk 1.2 and gnome 1.x, so the
> cost is basically just the size of the packages on the CDs.

  Well I would feel way better if we weren't shipping devel packages for
what I know as broken, deprecated for nearly 4 years code base. Ship the
library if you really want it, but please drop the -devel from the CDs,
I really really don't want to take the risk of people accidentally using
it.

Daniel

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