Openmotif in RPMFusion?

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Mar 24 10:55:57 CET 2009


On 24.03.2009 10:19, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>> On 03/23/2009 04:00 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>> Just a quick question before I start doing the work involved;
>>>
>>> would RPMFusion ship openmotif? More details on why it's not in Fedora
>>> (anymore) are on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RexDieter/openmotif
>>>
>> It could be in rpmfusion non-free, if it can be packaged in a way as to
>> not conflict with lesstif in *anyway*. I do not know what the default 
>> soname
>> for openmotif's build libs are, if those conflict with lesstif soname's 
>> this
>> is going to be very tricky.
> 
> Comparing F10 lesstif and PlanetCCRMA/F10 openmotif, the library sonames 
> are not a problem:
> [...]
> However, the -devel packages conflict with each other (library .so 
> files, header files, manpages) and fixing that would not be easy.

Not fully sure, but conflicting devel might be a advantage and not a 
disadvantage in this case, as it will make it obvious during compiling 
things which of the two is needed and used.

Cu
knurd


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