cabextract maintainership

[Mark Knoop]

On 18/01/07, Julian Sikorski <belegdol at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rex Dieter napisał(a):
> > Hans de Goede wrote:
> >
> >> Rex Dieter wrote:
> >>> I'll be picking up maintainership of cabextract (currently listed as
> >>> potential orphan on
> >>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackages)
> >
> >> How does this relate to unshield? unshield works well for me, is there
> >> any reason to have both?
> >
> > Excellent question.  I guess I was only fleetingly aware of unshield.  My
> > main interest in cabextract is that it is currently a BuildRequires for
> > (my) mathml-fonts pkg.
> >
> > I'll see about using unshield instead, and if that works, will likely
> > re-orphan cabextract.  Poor thing, so unloved/unwanted. (:
> >
> > -- Rex
> >
> Also msttcorefonts (not in extras, but IMO used quite widely) requires
> cabextract to build.

And ies4linux <http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/>, and possibly
other Wine-type things.

Info on this page <http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/unshield.php>
suggests that unshield and cabextract are not _quite_ the same...

-- 
Mark Knoop