Re: zlib, libpng, for real...
On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> If I had the ability to legislate stuff, yes, we'd be phasing out
> libgr, as I think its philosophy, though sensible for a homegrown
> system, doesn't work well with Debian.
I agree with this. I compiled shared libs of libpbm and libtiff on my
own machine for use with MuPAD. I could easily turn them into Debian
packages. Then we could eliminate libgr.
The description for libgr reads:
The formats included are fbm, jpeg, pbm, pgm, png, pnm, ppm, rle, tiff,
and zlib.
So we need these packages:
libjpeg (jpeg)
lipbm (pbm, pgm, ppm, pnm)
libtiff (tiff)
zlib
libpng (png)
??? (fbm, rle)
I'm not sure what those last 2 are. I assume rle means Run Length
Encoding, but I've never heard of those graphics formats.
One final question - should we install all the headers in
/usr/include/gr (or something like that), or should we have each
package have its own directory under include?
Guy
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