Re: sawfish broken unstable dist
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 07:32:59PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> H> I don't need to work with sawfish, and I suppose may
> H> make the most sense to drop the helix package sites.
>
> H> ==> ONE KEY QUESTION, SHOULD I BE DROPPING HELIX SITE?
>
> H> Could someone advise and/or point me to doc on this?
> H> I run RedHat on another system and have been happy with
> H> Helix, so setup my Debian to grab Helix. This worked
> H> fine until about a month ago when it snapped.
>
> Don't mix up Helix and Debian.
This reminds me. There is a discrepancy between the dependency
behavior of the Helix and Debian sawfish packages.
Sawfish now looks for the GNOME libraries at runtime, and dlopens them
if found. As a result, even a binary built with gnome support doesn't
actively link against any GNOME libraries.
For the Helix packages, I got rid of the separate configure and build
step for the sawfish-gnome package. Sawfish is built and installed
only once, and the sawfish-gnome package just contains the things
needed for gnomecc:
usr/bin/sawfish-capplet
usr/share/gnome
usr/share/control-center
Then sawfish-gnome doesn't conflict with sawfish. You may want to
consider doing this for the Debian packages.
Peter
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