Johan Ovlinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:24:40 -0400:
> Duncan wrote: >> "johan ovlinger" posted [as] excerpted below, on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 >> 15:40:34 +0000: >> >> That's an awful old gtk, I have 2.10.3 here: > > I've been meaning to upgrade [gtk] but my box started out as FC 2, I > think, and the repositories are getting thin on the ground; by now most > rpms are franken-upgraded to a mis-mash of half installed from source, > half installed from rpms others have rolled up, and half are just out of > date. > > One of these days I'll just do a clean re-install, but gawd, that's a > pain I'd just as well put off indefinitely. ugh. > > I'll see if I can't coerce GTK2 to install on the machine. I wouldn't worry too much about upgrading gtk. As you said, by now you are looking at franken-packages in many cases, so upgrading the entire install makes more sense. As I said, file a pan bug and Charles will likely figure out how to implement the lost changes in a compatible way, as it's not going to be just you with an old gtk+. One of the great things about Gentoo is that full release all-at-one-time upgrades aren't the way Gentoo likes to do things. Rather, you install once and upgrade each package as the updates become available. Once in awhile you upgrade your profile to point to a later release, as old ones eventually go unsupported, but even then, it's generally only a few packages that were masked on the old profile due to incompatibilities that will need upgraded, as everything else has been updated as new versions came along and stabilized. Of course, Gentoo has its downsides too. Not everyone has a fast enough machine to find compiling from source practical, and others simply prefer to let their distribution make the decisions and take many of the responsibilities that Gentoo leaves for the end user sysadmin. Gentoo's not for everyone, but one thing it /does/ do quite effectively is eliminate the pain of the release snapshot-in-time effect that most distributions suffer. That's one of many reasons I like it. So anyway, file that bug as you won't be the only one with an old gtk, and Charles /has/ been trying to keep compatibility with it. I'm not sure I'd want to chance upgrading gtk on a generally old base either. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
