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

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Fri Mar 12 22:12:40 CET 2010


Hi Phil,

Am 12.03.2010 um 22:05 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Dagobert Michelsen  
> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> ...
>> I prefer a clean, perfectly functioning package which needs manual
>> checking instead of a package that needs overriding checks (missing
>> dependencies) and crashes on usage.
>>
>
> well, i do agree with you there.
>
> I suppose that as long as you put in the desc, "with optional X11
> support", that will remind me in the future to ignore the X11 libs
> warnings for that package.
>
> So... do we want to keep things simple, and just have both versions of
> the lib in the same
> CSWgiflibrt (but without the explicit depend on CSWlibXxxxx)  ?

No. The promise is
    pkg-get -i <package>
and dependencies have been taken care of. This would break the promise.


Best regards

   -- Dago


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