'Twas brillig, and Philippe DIDIER at 23/01/11 22:38 did gyre and gimble: > I send this message again because it did not appear in the mailing-list > after I sent it on january 18th.... > As it concerns a basis rpm upon which others are built, I thought > there's some emergency > This seems to have at least convinced Mandriva team... and might improve > Mageia too, reaching some common standard with all the other distributions. > > Here it is : > > Hi everybody ! > > I don't know if it's the right place to post this, and I don't want to > fill this mail list with long mesages... > > If someone needs to see what i'm talking about there's an old bug report > on Mandriva bugzilla that was recently resuscitated (I know Thierry > Vignaud had a glance on it...) > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47090 > > Perhaps it would be more sane and safe to start on a universal basis > with freeglut (that is used by every distribution), and build packages > with it (but that means a temporary problem of compatibility with > Mandriva...) > > Hope this will help
Yeah I've been following this in Mdv myself. I'll try and take a look when time frees itself from other tasks I'm involved in. I don't see any problems with the various improvements made in the packaging in mdv, so see no reason not to adopt them here. Col -- Colin Guthrie mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]