[Bug 451744] Review Request: root - The CERN analyzer for high to medium energy physics

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--- Comment #10 from Kostas Georgiou <k.georgiou at imperial.ac.uk>  2009-02-12 08:12:24 EDT ---
I have a spec file that I use locally (we are an HEP group) but it's by no
means ready to be included in fedora.

>From what I remember some of the problems are:
* The M$ fonts have to go, we need to find suitable replacements and patch the
code
* Licesing could be an issue with other parts of root beyond the fonts, getting
some advice from the legal team is probably a good idea
* Some libraries are unversioned (xrootd, proofd. If I remember correctly)
* Most of the servers use no authentication in their default setup so the
configs need to be changed to default to some "strong" authentication, people
shouldn't end up exporting their homes without authentication just because they
started a service.
* I've been packaging cint (the c++ interpreter) on it's own subpackage since
it can be usefull outside of root, the latest version of root doesn't build the
binary anymore though and it looks like upstream is starting to use cint on
it's own (http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint). It might be worthwhile to
check if root can use the "external" cint to avoid code duplication.
* find a solution for libafterimage

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