[fab] Re: openmotif

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Wed Aug 30 21:45:57 UTC 2006


On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:18:36PM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 10:49 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> 
> OK, here's how we can do this:
> 
> 1. Lesstif is approved. It needs to incorporate my fixes (see BZ 203274)
> and be rebuilt.

It's done.

> 2. libGLw needs to be approved. I posted a fixed SRPM (see BZ 188974).
> It needs to be committed and rebuilt into FE.
> 3. lesstif needs to be rebuilt one more time after libGLw is built.
> Hooray for circular deps!

In my opinion it is not needed. If I'm not wrong lesstif isn't built
against libGLw, it is only needed for a test (and currently tests
cannot be built).

> 4. mesa without libGLw needs to be rebuilt in Core.
> 5. ddd and xpdf need to be moved to Fedora Extras, their BR changed from
> openmotif-devel to lesstif-devel.
> 6. tetex-xdvi can pass --with-xdvi-x-toolkit=xaw to configure, and no
> longer depend on motif. It needs to do this and be rebuilt in Core.
> 7. At this point, we can destroy openmotif from orbit (with our newly
> repaired ORBITAL LASER).

Once again I think it would be better to deprecate openmotif but drop it 
only at FC7...

--
Pat




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