The last scheduled GNOME 2.30 release has been made, with GNOME 3.0 due in September. GNOME 3.0 will still use glib2.0, atk1.0, pango1.0, and gdk-pixbuf2.0 (which will be a separate source package again), but will add new parallel-installable 3.0 versions of GTK+ and all GTK+-dependent libraries. At the same time, support for deprecated 2.x libraries will be dropped.
Accordingly, I now consider the following packages (and their subpackages) OBSOLETE: GTK+ 1.2: glib gtk+ gtk-engines imlib Deprecated GNOME 2 libraries: esound gnome-vfs2 libart_lgpl_2 libbonobo2 libbonoboui2 libglade2.0 libgnome2 libgnomecanvas2 libgnomeprint2.2 libgnomeprintui2.2 libgnomeui2 libgtkhtml2 libIDL2 ORBit2 In addition, the following packages will be first considered deprecated this fall, meaning they will still be supported for a while but their usage should decrease rapidly next year: dbus-glib (replaced by glib2.0 GDbus API) GConf2 (replaced by glib2.0 GSettings API and dconf backend) gtk2.0 (replaced by gtk3.0) gtk2.0-engines (replaced by gtk3.0-engines) There are a number of newer 2.x libraries in Ports which I never got around to ITPing. At this point, as they will be replaced this fall by separate 3.x versions, I suppose I'll just wait until then in order to minimize cruft in the distro. Please let me know if you have any questions. Yaakov
