[packagekit] glib2 status

Mounir Lamouri mounir.lamouri at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 04:57:04 PDT 2009


On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Anders F Björklund<afb at algonet.se> wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
>
>> So, obviously I want to convert all the PackageKit and
>> gnome-packagekit tools over to using the new library as soon as
>> possible. But, the new library makes heavy use of
>> g_cancellable_connect() and g_ptr_array_ref(), both of which appeared
>> in GLib 2.22, and I don't want to upset all you developers. I'm
>> running glib2-2.21.6-1.fc12.i686 here at the moment, and this works
>> well, although this wouldn't be available on Fedora 11.
>
> Isn't GLib 2.22 (or 2.21) already a requirement, from PolicyKitOne ?

glib-2.21 is required for polkit.
glib-2.22 is not in the official Gentoo tree but I don't think it's a
blocker anyhow. If no applications needs it, it will not make it
happen quickier. So let's do it.

--
Mounir



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