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[David Ranch <612659@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

DESCRIPTION: GTK2 is the primary GUI toolkit for Gnome-based
applications

REASON: I was trying to compile up some various applications this weekend on 
Centos 5.5 only to find that GTK2.12 or greater is required.  Centos 5 
only has gtk2.10 which is very old.  There are more and more applications that are making GTK >= 2.14
a hard requirement (GnuCash, etc.) and as such, they are officially 
dropping support for RHEL5/Centos5.  There are even long standing Redhat 
feature requests for this:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558788
I can add additional examples of projects dropping support because of this if you wish.

I made a similar request to the elrepo group but they felt this request
goes against their charter and would better served by the IUS group:
http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo-devel/2010-July/000263.html

** Affects: ius
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: wishlist

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WL: gtk 2.14
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Bug description:
DESCRIPTION: GTK2 is the primary GUI toolkit for Gnome-based applications

REASON: I was trying to compile up some various applications this weekend on 
Centos 5.5 only to find that GTK2.12 or greater is required.  Centos 5 
only has gtk2.10 which is very old.  There are more and more applications that are making GTK >= 2.14
a hard requirement (GnuCash, etc.) and as such, they are officially 
dropping support for RHEL5/Centos5.  There are even long standing Redhat 
feature requests for this:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558788
I can add additional examples of projects dropping support because of this if you wish.

I made a similar request to the elrepo group but they felt this request goes against their charter and would better served by the IUS group:  http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo-devel/2010-July/000263.html