On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 00:42, Frédéric Crozat wrote: > Le Wed, 06 Mar 2002 02:07:43 +0100, Bryan Paxton a écrit : > > If you were reading the result of the rpmfind query, you'll see that the > ximian package is a GNOME 2 snapshot. It has nothing to do with Mandrake ! > > And if you are following GNOME2 development, you can see that the entire > GNOME2 platform will no longer have big metapackage like gnome-core and > so on.. > So, it seems GNOME community is moving to a "libification like process".. We only > began to work on that before others.. >
I stand corrected here (in looking again I see those are redhat packages for gnome 2 preview). I have not be avidly following GNOME 2 devel, However, I do point to this ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/pre-gnome2/redhat/specs/gnome-core.spec so, I'll go over to talk with Ximian folks about their package : ) > Our GNOME packages are compatible with RedHat package at the binary > level.. They have never been supposed to be compatible at the source > level.. Same thing between distro version : an old distro package should > compile on a newer distro... An old package should install on a newer distro as well, easy and clean, IMHO > > Old packages? I'm only concerned with 8.2 and Ximian compatibility. > > The way the spec file is now (requires and provides) makes xmms > > incompatible... Of course you can always simply do a rpm -b$1 --nodeps > > xmms.spec, but that breaks the "cleanliness" of interruptibility between > > the two distributions of GNOME (mdk's implementation and ximian's > > distro). > > Yes, I continue to say old package.. Ximian is still 8.1 only compatible > so when you said you want "Ximian compatibility", in fact, you ask for > 8.1 compatibility.. Actually, no. Cooker is pretty damn compatible with Ximian GNOME for 8.1 mdk. I won't go into why, however. But pretty much, just to let everyone who is interested, Ximian rpms for 8.1 installed on this cooker machine without a hitch (except for a --nodeps on concerns with conflicts from libpng3). Just needs to be rebuilt against libpng3, imlib2, and libxml2. So I was pretty impressed by this. > GNOME dependencies/requires/provides are correct in cooker.. > > If you have a problem with xmms, see with xmms maintainer.. There is > nothing wrong with GNOME packages.. When xmms depends on various GNOME libs, this makes no sense. And to be honest, I don't use mdk's GNOME packages, for reasons which I will not go into (yet again). I just want a good percentage of users to have the best experience possible with foo. > > For me, there has never been a debate on that, so I won't post any > more message on this topic.. I prefer to concentrate my time on fixing > GNOME.. > Indeed, useless chatter this has evolved into... Tashi Delek -- Bryan Paxton Public PGP key: http://www.deadhorse.net/bpaxton.gpg "Heedfulness: the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness: the path to death. The heedful do not die. The heedless are as if already dead." -- Dhp. 21-24
