On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:37 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Brian Cameron wrote:
> > If I am right about this, I think the best thing to do would be:
> > 
> > 1. Remove the SUNWimagick.spec from spec-files
> 
> If JDS isn't the consolidation that actually integrates this into Nevada,
> currently, then I'd agree.

That is the case.  We needed it in the past because convert (part of
ImageMagick) was too old to build the tango icon theme.  So we can 
remove this.

> > 2. Remove the SFEimagemagick.spec from spec-files-extra
> 
> Agree, because it's already duplicated software in Nevada.
> 
> > 3. Add a new SUNWimagick.spec file to spec-files-extra that builds
> >    the latest & greatest.  This will allow people to build/rebuild
> >    the latest SUNWimagick code if they need to for any reason (like
> >    to test building some new thing that depends on a newer release).
> 
> I disagree. The reason spec-files-extra works well (IMHO) is because it uses
> what's currently available in Nevada, and doesn't duplicate things 
> unnecessarily.

I think it's still good to have an easy way to build the latest and
greatest and possibly with different options.  I think Eric suggested
in the past that we could have a subdir for these duplicates and
they should not be required for anything else in SFE.

Laca


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