Re: xchat.spec updated (OT)

[Spider <spider@bahnhof.se>]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:51:22 -0400
Keeper of the Key to Time <keybounce@bigfoot.com> wrote:

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> 	Interestingly, the specfile Mandrake provides, which seems to be mostly 
> maintained by Geoffrey Lee, does not even require gtk+-devel, although it 
> does require -devels for perl, python, openssl, etc. because they build 
> everything they possibly can into it. I always remove stuff I don't need, so 
> I find myself editing the specfile with each new release.

Hmm, Beat him in the head with a spoon perhaps? So far I've had to help a pal who did the mistake of installing Mandrake 8.0 as a newbie and tried to get Xchat to work with it ; )  needless to say, he didn't install the -devel packages for anything... and to find out what went wrong with his compile across the phone was not fun :/ 

Although i have to say that urpmi is a good thing (Tm)  ; ) 

As for the multiple-builds,  i think it should be possible to make several binary rpm's with the one and single spec file... Though how is a bit beyond me for the moment.. something to look into perhaps...

> 	Xchat's specfile has always amused me, with comments like "this buggy 
> makefile piss me off"...  :)
Ohh, wait until you start repackaging Gnome ; ) then you start the real amusement.. ."now why doesnt make install work here, ohkay, doitthehackybuggyway." And others.. : ) 


> 	Some of their naming conventions, which I was only introduced to last week 
> when I installed 8.0, annoy me... but on the other hand I can see why they 
> found it useful. (There's been libqt1 and libqt2 for a while now, for 
> instance, to allow KDE 1 and 2 to co-exist, among other things.)

mmh, Yeah, RedHat has been doing the same with OpenSSL 0.9.5 and QT, they did the mean way with freetype and bundled both 2.0 and 1.4 in the same rpm.

But, it does add a whole lot of troubles for us packagers... 

(hint hint, somone donate me a development machine with mandrake and I'll serve them with packages ;) 


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