On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:45:32PM -0400, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >| I want to contribute/maintain glib. >| Canonical website: http://www.gtk.org/ > >+1 from me. > >| Runtime package setup.hint: >| === >| category: Libs >| requires: cygwin libiconv2 libintl2 >| sdesc: "low-level core library - runtime libraries and executables" >| ldesc: "GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis of >| GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability >| wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event >| loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system." > >What about making new categories for all the GNOME-dependent stuff, >similar to X11? I think that's very helpful. We've been using the >following, but maybe you want something slightly different:
Red Hat seems to just put this under System Environment/Libraries. I haven't checked Debian. IMO I don't think we need to invent a new category here, though. >GNOME2-apps GNOME2-libs GNOME2-libs-devel GNOME2-doc ... > >| Devel package setup.hint: >| === >| category: Libs >| requires: glib >| sdesc: "headers and import libraries for glib" > >I think "category: Libs Devel" is more appropriate here, if you don't >make GNOME2-* categories. Ditto about the Devel. It does need to be added. cgf
