From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms_at_1407.org)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2003 - 20:14:41 EST
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 04:40, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 10:47:42 at 10:47:42AM +0000, Rui Miguel Seabra (rms_at_1407.org) wrote:
> It's almost one month since when I asked here how to compile slimmer
> rpms for RH9, and my net connection is down now, so I'll have to go
> with memory.
> When a program is packaged for a distribution it should integrate with
> it as much as possible. Package wise this means that if AbiWord
> requires specific releases of X, Y and Z, and these are *already*
> packaged for the stable or testing version of the target distro, the
> abiword package should be built against *them*.
Great. Then show me where in RH9 is libfribidi. Thank you. ;)
Now more seriously, the packages I made are in Savannah where there's
also a misc/ directory where there usually are some required packages
for the version of AbiWord you're looking for. However, if there is a
problem I would have liked bug reports.
<rant>
I've always asked to have savannah.gnu.org/download/abiword also listed
in the download pages, also because of the extra packages that are
needed.
</rant>
> The abiword packagers
> should also build public RPMs for X, Y or Z only if:
It's not possible, AFAICT, to build abiword 2 with _only_ rh9.
> When last month the abi RPM asked libfribidi, I searched Red Hat 9
> first, then rawhide. Since a fribidi was there, there was no reason to
> look elsewhere for another package, it would have no reason to exist.
rawhide is not the place for RPMS for RH9. You where lucky they even
worked :)
Hugs, Rui
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