Le mar 05/03/2002 à 15:23, Bryan Paxton a écrit : > On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 07:39, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Bryan Paxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > This change is to keep compatibility with Ximian GNOME. > > > Ximian GNOME is a popular _distribution_ of GNOME. Mandrake is also a > > > popular distribution of GNU/Linux. Distributions that have such > > > popularity should not have a granular compatibility issue IMHO, and IMHO > > > it does. It has gotten better on both sides over the few years, but it > > > needs to get smooth IMHO. > > > Some people love Mandrake GNU/Linux, but they also prefer Ximian gnome. > > > Installation and removal of both sets of packages (libs and all) that > > > consist of that desktop should be a breeze, and so should building > > > packages that depend around those desktop packages (libs and all). > > > Anyway, here's the patch, nice and small : ) > > > > This is beyond my own competence so I've asked fcrozat@ who is > > maintainer for all gnome stuff and he said this is needed for > > rebuilding for mandrake-8.1, which I'm not really interested in.. > > > > Hrmmmmmmm, this is why I was looking for some type of logical OR to use > in a rpm spec file. It appears, there simply isn't (from what I've > researched), but someone did have a kind of ad hoc way of reaching the > same goal, and that is to simply use virtual packages, so gnome-core, > should provide gnome-core, and gnome-core-devel vs. providing > libpanel_applet and libpanel_applet-devel (it seems silly to call them > these packages anyway, since defacto standard from GNOME is gnome-core, > no need to be anal about what libs and files it actually provides and > obfuscate things more.).
It seems you have never seen debian packages.. There should be NO problem recompiling old packages on cooker/8.2. But cooker package are not supposed to be backward compatible with old version of the distro.. -- Frédéric Crozat MandrakeSoft
