[Greg Troxel] Re: [HEADS UP] Package removal -- please check

[Greg Troxel]

In pkgsrc-land we are working on removing crufty pacakages that still
use gtk1.   So I wonder now that guile 2.0 is out if there will be a
stable release of guile-gnome-platform, so that we can update both, and
other upstream packages with code that uses guile-gtk can be pushed to
change to guile-gnome-platform?

Some of those people may be reluctant because using guile-gnome-platform
From released packages has been hard for the last several years.  I
think one of the most important things for guile-gnome-platform is to
make it so that running the latest stable release is almost always an ok
thing to do - users shouldn't have to grab bits from git/etc.

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  devel/guile-gtk

This should stay, as should gtk1 itself.  guile-gtk is a foundational
library and I don't think there is net benefit to withdrawing it from
pkgsrc users.  I still have code (not in pkgsrc) that uses it.  There
really is no stable replacement for it even now (guile-gnome-platform
sort of is, but releases have been flaky, plus it's a completely
different API).

I will ping the guile-gnome-platform people; now that guile 2.0 is out
a stable release of guile-gnome-platform is in order.

  geography/gpsdrive

There is a much newer version; this should get updated rather than
removed.

  print/gimp-print

I think there is one pkgsrc user left who hasn't migrated to
gutenprint, and there are no good reasons not to migrate.  So I think
it's ok to remove this.

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