Free Software audit update

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Aug 31 05:05:41 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 21:06 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:15:09AM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> 
> > * Working hard to get lesstif in and openmotif out before FC-6.
> 
> lesstif is built in fedora extras now.
> 
> We can start rebuilding against lesstif now, but I don't think we should 
> remove openmotif hastily. The devel packages conflict but the packages
> that contain the libs don't conflict. So a user that want to build his 
> own apps against openmotif can do it, and the libs are available for
> linking even if lesstif is used to build.
A fact, I consider to be a fault of FE QA and bad design of yours.

You should have packaged lesstif in such a way both openmotif-devel and
lesstif-devel can be installed in parallel.

Ralf





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