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gtk2-2.12

Asked by David Ranch on 2010-07-31

Hello Everyone,

I've been findind more and more modern Linux software needs a slightly newer version of GTK than what RHEL5/Centos5 provides. Because of this, more and more projects are dropping RHEL/CENTOS support which is very unfortunate. I originally posted a GTK package upgrade request to the elrepo group but they felt that wouldn't fall under their charters:

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo-devel/2010-July/000263.html
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I was trying to compile up some various applications this weekend on
Centos 5.5 only to find that GTK2.12 or greater is required. Centos 5
only has gtk2.10. There are more and more applications that are making
this requirement (GnuCash, etc.) and as such, they are officially
dropping support for RHEL5/Centos5. There are even long standing Redhat
feature requests for this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558788

Is this something elrepo group might consider?
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They then recommend to put the request here as it might be a better fit, Thoughts? I can cite other URLs of various projects that are dropping Centos support because of the evidently significant changes between GTK2-2.10 and GTK2-2.14.

--David