On 05/31/2012 08:43 PM, zxq9 wrote:
> On 06/01/2012 03:16 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> Andrew Z wrote:
>>
>>> just curious if you know the time-frame for 4.10 hitting the SL in
>>> packaged form :) ?
>>
>> Probably no time soon, since it apparently requires newer versions of
>> Gtk+, Glib etc than exist in SL 6.
>>
>> http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building
>> Xfce 4.10 requires Gtk+ 2.20 and Glib 2.24
>>
>> SL6 has 2.18 and 2.22.
>
> This sort of thing is why you exchange "cutting edge" for stability. Its
> the same issue with moving KDE ahead to > 4.3: a lot of the core distro
> would have to go along with it.
>
> The dependency breakages (or, at a minimum, package rebuilds) required
> are a hard enough maintenance problem that its better to just spin off a
> new distro than to deal with rifted library problems. Distros get hard
> to maintain pretty fast, which is why most distros don't make it very far.
>
> Since both XFCE and KDE aren't part of SL or TUV's distro but come from
> EPEL (and probably other repos) its impossible to expect the SL team to
> decide to fork the entire distro for the sake of one window manager, as
> this is completely against their goals.

Just a minor correction, KDE is indeed part of TUV/SL, it just is not 
the latest bleeding edge, as you state.

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