Subject: Re: updating libXft2, libXrender, libXrandr, libXcursor, libXfixes, etc.
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/31/2006 18:49:25
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:47:44PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> They use pkg-config to check for "x11" and other dependencies. Should the
> configure scripts be patched? Should we install dummy pkg-config files?
Dummy pkg-config files, please.
> They use randrproto, fixesproto, and so on instead of randrext, fixesext,
> etc. Should we remove the old "ext" versions and use the new packages
> instead?
Yes, please.
> By the way, the packages we have may strip the "lib" off the distname.
> But I'd like to use the official distname as the package name. Any
> comments?
I prefer PKGNAME=DISTNAME in nearly all cases too, so please do that.
Thanks,
Thomas