Fedora Extras Package Updates

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, seth vidal wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 09:56 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, seth vidal wrote:
>>> Some busy packagers today. Lots of new/updated stuff.
>>>      wxPython (x86, x86_64)
>>>      wxPythonGTK2 (x86, x86_64)
>>
>> Erm, why do we have two packages of the same thing? Please kill the
>> package named wxPython from both the repository and CVS, wxPythonGTK2 *is*
>> wxPython, built with GTK2-support and provides "wxPython" so packages can
>> depend on the the "real" name. It's named like that because we could (at
>> least in theory) provide another package of it built against gtk-1.x (or
>> whatever other widgets it might support) and let the user choose.
>> At least that was the rationale for the naming in original fedora.us
>> packaging :)
>
> deferring to the package maintainer - I'm just a human buildsystem. I
> was told to build wxPython and wxPythonGTK2, so I did. :)

Wasn't directed at you obviously... *I'm* supposed to be the package 
maintainer but lacking CVS access, it's a bit hard at times :)

What we probably have here is just an artifact of the mass-import of 
history and all into CVS - the package has had two names in past.

 	- Panu -