Vincent Untz wrote:
For a while, I've been wondering why we still have glib 1.x and gtk 1.x (as well as some other part of the GNOME 1.x stack). So today I looked at this closely, and I think we can work towards removing those packages.
We still have even older toolkits like motif and xaw3d. Gtk1 was once very popular, there are probably 3rd party tools out there that use it¹.
Why should we remove those libraries? Well, they're not maintained upstream, and from a security point of view, this can be quite bad.
Well, what kind of security issues do you expect? Some integer overflows in gdk_pixbuf maybe. Nothing that would be hard nor critical to fix I suppose. cu Ludwig [1] Wasn't there some Deutsche Telekom Phone Book CD that had a gtk app on it? I can't remember exactly. -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org