Re: Policy regarding Motif apps?
In message <[🔎] 199602261459.IAA04567@cascade.cs.utexas.edu>, "William S. Gribble" writes:
>I'm wondering what the Debian developers' and users' views are about Motif
>apps. Should they be available as Debian packages at all? If so, should
>the binary packages be statically linked, which is gross, or dynamically
>linked, requiring that you have Motif libraries installed? Maybe both
>should be available? I personally have Motif installed, and it irks me to
>have to use a statically-linked Netscrape, so I wouldn't be too thrilled
>about a bunch of other static Motif apps.
I, too, have Motif installed, and think it would be quite nice to have
dynamically-linked packages.
Actually, I think it would be nifty to have a debian-packaged Motif
(much like RedHat has for their distribution), but I don't suppose
anyone has the time and/or license to do that.
Mike.
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