On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:00 AM, David Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:12 PM, John Robinson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On 09/05/2008 16:56, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> >> Remind me again... Why does atrpms continue to package lirc? >> > >> > Because Fedora x (some x) and ELx (any x) don't include it, but Axel >> > supports them. >> >> Jarod's point was to go ahead and build them for the distros that >> don't have the proper support upstream, but for those that do, drop it >> or only build the parts that are needed (like the kmdls possibly in >> F8's case). >> > > Which modules are missing? > > In my experience, it is much more problematic > to maintain a partial package than the whole thing. You end up having to > compile everything > to throw away the common part. That is exactly what happens to xine, and > its free/non-free part (its nuts in my opinion, but solves a license > problem). > > The video4linux package in ATrpms exists just to cope with the rapid > development upstream, and > the big delay to see the new code in a new kernel. Furthermore, I do not > like having part of a package compiled in a building system and part on > another. Is to ask for problems... > > Maybe we could start using the same nomenclature for lirc and its > components? This way, those who do not need anything special could just use > the RedHat package and nothing else, or switch from one version to the other > very easily. > > A final remark. The way myth package is now, it requires the lirc static library (liblirc_client.a), during compilation. This lib is not present in Jarod's (devel) package. Since RH banned static libs sometime ago, this one will be difficult to accommodate. I my case I had to recompile Jarod's packages to be able to use and develop with them in Atrpms. Basically, I am building the missing static library and providing lirc-lib-devel in lirc-devel. But no one needs a third version of lirc packages, right? -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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