Re: giflib2

["Rev. Joseph Carter" <knghtbrd@earthlink.net>]

On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 11:27:53PM +0200, Klas Lindberg wrote:

> > Namely that the package you're asking for doesn't exist.  HOWEVER, there
> > is a libgif2 and that is what you want.  Assuming of course that you're
> > willing to hack apart the .deb file, edit the dependancy, and put it back
> > together again.  I do not advise forcing the package.
> 
> There is a much more straight forward solution:
> Get the sources and compile them yourself (support, libs, base (the 
> rest in any order)). This requires a pretty fat developers installation of 
> Debian, but it definitely pays off since dependecy problems are virtually 
> blown away. (they come back in a more digestible format when trying to start 
> KDE for the first time...)

This could be done I suppose..  But it has a disadvantage too in that it
defeats the purpose of packaging the thing.


> This also has the benefit (?) of getting the installation into the 
> /usr/local/ tree (same as QT) instead of the RedHatian /opt/ tree.

AFAIK, the /opt/ thing is the way the KDE people say to do it, though it
breaks policy (then again so does qmail if you're doing it as designed)
and I am personally unsure as to whether /usr/local/ would indeed be
better than /opt/.  Perhaps symlinking would be better?  Yes, that would
do it I think.

Thinking that line, what would then be really nice is a debianized package
version done "properly", in an attempt to make the whole thing as close to
policy as possible (and have resolvable deps..)


If I knew the current still-non-free-but-at-least-nicer-than-it-was stuff
wrt Qt were going to pan out okay, I would happily try to do this myself.
Granted, since I do not know what the helpful tools are for making .deb
files I would end up building the package directories by hand, but hey.

My only real objection to Qt is that Troll has a financial interest in
making sure people pay them for it.  I want to know they will not pull an
Open Group move on us.  I'll like Qt much more when I am sure this will
not happen.


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