Here's my opinion about this: 1) We are offering users the option of system-xfree86 or system-xtools. So it only makes sense that we need to make sure that the Fink package works exactly like the system-xfree86 package.
2) There are only a few other system-foo packages, and in each case we need to make a similar effort. For example, we have system-tetex and so I have not modified the tetex package to build shared libraries, because the external-to-fink tetex distribution does not have shared libraries. 3) In fact, in my shared libraries project, I've been treating XFree86 as a special case... there is not a need to split the shared libraries off into a separate fink package because there won't be a separate package like that in the case of system-xfree86. So what should we do? Step 1: Help Justin fix whatever packages he was building, to use the static rather than the shared libraries. Step 2: create revision 6 of the xfree86-base package, which goes back to static libraries. Step 3: create revision 2 for whichever kde packages have linked to the shared libraries in the binaries. Step 4: rebuild binaries where necessary. Step 5: if this becomes a big problem for users, issue fix-fink version 2 which would test for libXinerama.dylib and the other one, and tell users they should upgrade if a link to that lib is present. -- Dave _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
