On Mon, 10 May 2010 02:09:45 -0400, Orcan wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Chen Lei wrote: > > > > As I mentoned below, some packges need update to the > > lastest release badly to get rid of gtk+ 1.2. And some packages can safely > > retire from fedora, e.g. xmms. > > > > At that point you break a cult. xmms still has a stubbornly loyal fan > base (just go to #fedora and start talking about it). Why don't they take care of http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/xmms and additional tickets that have been "hidden" by EOL scripts already? > Unlike almost > everything else, xmms never fails to work. A smiley missing? > We don't want to get people > upset, do we? Well, seems to become a common trend in Fedora-land to do that more often. I support Chen Lei here, as offering a growing number of out-dated apps (both with regard to their maintenance/development state, look'n'feel, and unhandled problem reports) is neither beneficial to Fedora nor to the app itself. Those app users, who are left, will abandon the app [silently!] when they face problems, especially if those problems won't be fixed in Fedora. As has been mentioned, XMMS has various successors such as XMMS2 and Audacious. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
