Subject: Re: Using ns-remote as 'netscape' package
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/02/2000 13:14:48
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > Will you pull in navigator or communicator?
> Conditional dependency on {communicator,navigator}.
This does not answer the question.
This does:
yui# pkg_admin lsbest /usr/pkgsrc/packages/i386ELF/All/'{communicator,navigator}*'
/disk3/ftp/pub/NetBSD/packages/i386ELF/All/communicator-4.75.tgz
> > 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.
OK with me
- Hubert
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