Subject: Re: Using ns-remote as 'netscape' package
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/01/2000 18:27:07
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > One final question - if we rename the package to netscape
> > (which I'd like to do as people can then build a 'netscape'
> > package and have the right thing happen), then we should
> > probably crank the version to 4.75?
>
> Not sure.
> Will you pull in navigator or communicator?
Conditional dependency on {communicator,navigator}.
> Maybe we should add a 'netscape' meta package that will pull in the
> ns-remote and one of the browsers.
We end up with most of the same problem - what to call that
package, though that is a cleaner solution given it allows
people to install ns-remote without 'netscape' and for ns-remote
to have its own version number.
How about:
ns-remote package stays as it is, with enhanced ns-open.
new netscape package that depends on ns-remote and
{communicator,navigator}, and installs a symlink from netscape
to ns-open. The netscape package takes its version from the
communicator/navigator package.
David/absolute
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