cabextract maintainership

[Hans de Goede]

Mark Knoop wrote:
> 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...
> 

Actually quite different, good catch!

Regards,

Hans