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From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new packages
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:28:12
Message-Id: 3A93761C.2F50DAD1@gottinger.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new packages by Pete Gavin
1 Pete Gavin wrote:
2
3 > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:43:07AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
4 > > > They're
5 > > > only there to reduce the amount of duplicated code between the
6 > > > hundreds of utilities that are included in the package. I don't know
7 > > > of any packages that link to these libraries, and no header files are
8 > > > installed by netpbm, so I don't know how you could get the prototypes
9 > > > for the functions in the libraries anyways... And imagemagick provides
10 > > > libraries, but its in media-gfx...
11 > >
12 > > I thought we disscussed the media-libs issue. We will change it but for now
13 > > I
14 > > think we should place such stuff to media-libs because the other image libs
15 > > are in there too.
16 > > True imagemagick and gimp provide libs too but in opposit to netpbm they
17 > > offer a GUI interface
18 > > that's why they are in media-gfx.
19 > >
20 >
21 > Ok, I'm gonna remove media-gfx/netpbm, but I'd like to make my version
22 > netpbm-9.10-r2, since I put the extra data stuff in /usr/share/netpbm,
23 > rather than /usr/lib/netpbm, since its just data and not executable
24 > stuff. And the Makefile.config for r1 doesn't give all the proper
25 > paths for the include files and libraries for libpng, jpeg, & tiff. Is
26 > that ok w/ you?
27 >
28
29 Yes please.
30
31 achim~
32
33 >
34 > Pete
35 >
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