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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] is geda dead yet?
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:02:17 -0400
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"Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]"
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> writes:
> Are guile 1 and gtk2 in danger of not building?  If not why worry
> about replacing them?

Perhaps, but more likely, they just won't be available on most
platforms, because *they* don't have a lot of maintainers either.

With updates to the compiler and other dev tools, they might not compile
either.  Bit rot is real.

> If distros don't want to ship them anymore can't we just roll them in?

In general, no, because that's "against the rules" for most distros.
Fedora, for example, has a "no bundling" rule for packages.  If you need
gtk2, you have to convice the gtk folks to package gtk2 for you.

But even if it was allowed, we still need a maintainer to volunteer to
do the work, and/or a distro packager to update the package build rules.