[csw-maintainers] Which x11 library to choose?

[Roger Håkansson]

Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Roger,
> 
> Am 12.03.2010 um 12:49 schrieb Roger Håkansson:
>> On 2010-03-12 11:07, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Otherwise we end up with the same problem as we have right now, some
>>>> packages are linked with Sun X11 and some with OpenCSW X11 and when 
>>>> creating
>>>> a package which is linked to libraries from both categories we get into
>>>> trouble.
>>>
>>> Is this an example of what you were talking about?
>>>
>>> $ ldd -r /opt/csw/bin/awesome | grep libX11
>>>         libX11.so.6 =>    /opt/csw/X11/lib/libX11.so.6
>>>         libX11.so.4 =>    /usr/lib/libX11.so.4
>>
>> What I meant was that it takes a lot of time for the maintainers to 
>> try to work around the various link-errors you get.
>> But also, such a binary isn't guaranteed to work at all.
> 
> Ok, that means we should identify the libraries linked to Sun X11 and
> rebuild them instead of working around anything, right?
> 

That's my recommendation, yes