[pkg-GD-devel] Bug#443654: Bug#443654: Bug#443654: Bug#443654: libgd2: Please stop the xpm dichotomy.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:25:09PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>On Sunday 01 March 2009, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> >OK. I ran into this because inn2 needs a recommends or suggests on 
>> >libgd-gd2-(no)xpm-perl and was wondering if both variants should 
>> >provide a pseudo package (as the regular libs do) to make such a 
>> >dependency easier.
>>
>> I decided to not hide behind a virtual or pseudo package, because 
>> packages depending on GD really needs to decide if XPM support is 
>> needed or not.
>
>Well, packages that don't need it can use either of course and having 
>to define an "|" in that case is somewhat annoying. And you'd have to 
>specify the "|" as otherwise you could conflict with other packages 
>that do depend on the xdm variant.
>
>Packages that _do_ need it would of course have to explicitly depend on 
>the variant with xdm support.

Indeed.

I have the feeling that you find that not just ugly, but possible to do 
different.

Please do elaborate!

Even though for this package it most probably irrelevant, multi-flavored 
packages are not going away, and I am sincerely interesting in your 
ideas on this (and feel that this bugreport is quite an appropriate 
place to discuss it, also more generally).


  - Jonas

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