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

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 12.03.2010 um 18:41 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Dagobert Michelsen  
>> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Phil,
>>>
>>> I would prefer #1 as with number #2 the library has the impression  
>>> it
>>> can do X11 grabs and crashes if you do without the CSW X11 libs
>>> installed.
>
> PS: you're going to have similar problems with the "separate" lib  
> anyway.

No.

> If you include it in the same package (which is nicest in a lot of
> ways), it still could result in the same situation, where "it crashes
> because the X libs arent installed".
> They wont be auto-installed, because the whole point of this excercise
> is to remove the X11 dependancy from the package.
>
> If you include it in a SEPARATE package, then it messes up our
> inter-package dependancy checking, due to the issues you already
> discovered a month or two ago, about why it is "bad" to use
> Alternatives on a shared lib split across multiple packages.

It is not "bad". There are some things which you must do right, but
then it works. This has been documented at
   <http://wiki.opencsw.org/project-alternatives#toc3>
and I made a GAR receipt as reference:
   <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/pkg/neon/trunk/Makefile 
 >


Best regards

   -- Dago