Free Software audit update

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Thu Aug 31 14:07:35 UTC 2006


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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.

Funny, I'd have been happier if neither one were installable at all.

- ajax




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