On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Ben Hines wrote: > > On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 10:56 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: > > > I argue for leaving it as is. We indeed have had this discussion > > before, > > and the conclusion was that since there are lots of ways to use X11 > > apps > > without having xfree86-rootless installed, we should not move > > "Provides: > > > > I think that was YOUR conclusion, and you are the maintainer, so it > didn't happen. I disagreed then, and I still disagree, and it looks > like more people disagree now. > > The current situation causes a LOT of confusion for newbies. And for > what - to save 4 megs of hard drive space. Thats silly. > > -Ben
Ben: Look at the archives - I wasn't just agreeing with myself. Jeez, I never thought I'd get so much grief for expressing an opinion. Anyway, since I'm clearly in the minority here's what I propose to do. 1) create a unified xfree86 package which installs both the libs and the rootles server (i.e. everything). 2) create little pseudo packages for xfree86-base(-shlibs) and xfree86-rootless(-shlibs) that do nothing but Depend on xfree86-(shlibs). This will provide an upgrade path if you already have a fink xfree86 package installed. I have no idea whether this will work - we'll see. Comments? -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 FAX : (303)497-6449 325 Broadway Web : http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80305-3328 Office: Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
