Re: GNOME 2.0 Platform Alpha Deadline - Sep 26, 2001

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas online no>]

Den tir, 2001-09-18 kl. 22:20 skrev Bill Gribble:
> On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 14:29, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Anyhow, I think we need to do a better job of communicating just how
> > totally unsupported things like GAL and eel really are. These are not
> > for general use; they change soname all the time (or if they don't
> > they should), they are going to be subject to massive deprecation as
> > we move the platform forward, they add and remove interfaces, etc.
> 
> I guess I'm not being very clear, sorry. Here's a listing of the
> packages in Debian that depend on libgal being installed.  As far as I
> can tell, it's a good fraction of the major GNOME applications.
> 
> $ grep-dctrl -F depends -s package libgal /var/lib/dpkg/available

[SNIP list]

The only app in the core is gnumeric and even that is fifth toe (extra
apps) only.

Cheers
Kjartan