[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs giflib, giflib_doc, giflib_rt, libungif

[Philip Brown]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> * gif: revision upgrade
>  Now linked against CSW X11
>  - from: 2009.09.24
>  -   to: 2010.03.12
>  + giflib-4.1.6,REV=2010.03.12-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
>  + giflib-4.1.6,REV=2010.03.12-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
>  + giflib_doc-4.1.6,REV=2010.03.12-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz
>  + giflib_rt-4.1.6,REV=2010.03.12-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
>  + giflib_rt-4.1.6,REV=2010.03.12-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
>  + libungif-4.1.6,REV=2010.03.12-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz
>

a LIBRARY, "libgif", needs to be linked against libX11??
That's kinda messed up.
Why would a potentially command line util, that wants gif support,
need to be linked against libX11, just for linking against
giflib/libgif?

comparing...

http://packages.debian.org/sid/libgif4

does not have any X dependancies.

Can we improve our situation, please?