Re: Problem with installing GTK+-2.0.0 on Fedora Core 6

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sat, 9 May 2009, Ardhan Madras wrote:

> One of GTK+ dependency is GLib, each GTK+ version has it's GLib
> version dependency too, if you try to compile a newer GTK+
> version in a system that has not meet it's minimal requirement
> of GLib version then they will complain.
>
> You tried to update GLib on your distro using a package manager,
> you will got nothing to do because your distro will not broke
> all dependency that it already made. Moving from 2.4.0 to 2.12.3
> is not trivial, this will break many applications that already
> installed...

I suppose you're right that the FC 6 package manager will refuse
to update GLib beyond 2.4, but the argument given seems wrong:
aren't the even-numbered GLib releases all ABI-compatible?  That
is, updating from 2.4 to 2.12 shouldn't break anything.

Allin Cottrell