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Re: Gnome 2 summary 29/07/2002



On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 23:15, Joe Drew wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 18:06, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 23:00, Joe Drew wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 16:55, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > I pushed file-roller2 2.0.0 to unstable (again). file-roller2 1.109 was
> > > > supposed to hit unstable as well, it still didn't.
> > > 
> > > Why does it have the *2 suffix in unstable?
> > 
> > Because people are still using file-roller, the gnome1 package. And it's
> > still supported upstream.
> 
> Point #1 isn't valid: people are still using gnome-panel 1.x too, but
> that's only because it's the latest version in unstable/testing.
> 
> #2 is slightly more valid, though. Most of GNOME 1.4 is going to be
> unmaintained, which is a big reason to get GNOME 2 into unstable.
> 
> What reason would someone have (other than "Doesn't want to have gnome 2
> libraries on his computer", which I don't consider valid - GNOME 2 is
> supplanting GNOME 1) to use file-roller v1?

file-roller1 integrates in a Gnome1 desktop (themes, UI settings, etc.),
file-roller2 doesn't.

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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