gnome 2.12 for fc4?

[dragoran]

Peter Gordon schrieb:

>On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 11:19 +0100, dragoran wrote:
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>>kde 3.5 was released as an update for fc4.
>>but what about gnome 2.12?
>>fc5 will use gnome 2.14 while fc4 still uses gnome 2.10.
>>so any reasons for not shipping gnome 2.12? (I know that it will require 
>>a new gtk and cairo)
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>There was an article about this on FedoraNews soon after the release of
>GNOME 2.12: <http://tinyurl.com/8sd5x>
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>Essentially, you configure your system to use a third-party repository
>for all of the GNOME 2.12 stuff.
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>Please note that is probably entirely unsupported by the Fedora dev
>team, and it can easily break your system if you're not very careful.
>I've not tried this, so I can't comment on it further. 
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I hate replacing core packages with third party ones.