[Rd] Heads up on the gnomeGUI package and pending FC changes

[Marc Schwartz]

Hi all,

Tom Callaway from Red Hat posted a note on the Fedora Extras list
yesterday announcing that he will be retiring the R-gnomeGUI RPM from
Extras. After a brief clarification exchange this morning, I am posting
the information here.

The Fedora Development team has removed the old GNOME version 1.x libs
from the FC 6 devel tree. FC 6 is presently scheduled for a September
2006 release.

Thus, some of the core requirements to build the gnomeGUI on FC will be
going away moving forward.

I'm not sure if other distros will be taking (or already have taken) a
similar approach, but it may be worth noting in the R Admin Manual. I
suspect somebody will attempt to build the package (which also requires
that R is built as a shared lib) and find that it fails on (at least)
future FC versions.

Best regards,

Marc Schwartz