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Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed May 24 18:46:04 UTC 2006


Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:

> Dnia 24-05-2006, śro o godzinie 14:29 -0400, Bill Nottingham napisał(a):
> [..]
>> > > If we want to have the foo-config scripts warn, sure. Possibly
>> > > even patch our own Core & Extras packages. But randomly breaking
>> > > third-party software so it won't build isn't really practical.
>> > 
>> > I'm start from fribidi. OK. Lets look on some facts. Where it library
>> > is used ? abiword ? (in all other cases applications are using fibidi
>> > embeded in pango) huh .. where in this case is *real* problem ?
>> 
>> All other cases? Do you know the extent of all fribidi using
>> software that exists (not just Core/Extras)?
> 
> One in core: wordtrans. One in extras: abiword.

You know what?  It doesn't matter.  Get upstream to drop foo-config, and so
will Fedora.  It's as easy as that.

-- Rex




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