On Wed, 17 May 2006, Duncan wrote:

> glib1 would be for gtk/gnome (version 1) apps.  glib2 would be for
> gtk2/gnome2 apps.  The jump in the major version indicates
> incompatibility between them, and the different names allow them to be
> installed in parallel, so you can continue to run gtk/gnome original apps
> on a system otherwise long switched over to gtk2/gnome2.  xmms is perhaps
> the widest used application not yet ported (and not to be ported, since
> development has branched to other players) to gtk2.
> 

Ah thanks for that, now I know why xmms isn't installed in Mandriva 2006...!
I had mostly swapped over to amarok and beepmediaplayer.

Robert
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Robert Marshall


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