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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

Once the gnome 2.2 comes out pango 1.0.5 will go away and the problem
with be solved.  I will also try cleaning up the gnome-2-desktop-profile
once 2.2 is released.

Or would this be a good time to start putting the gnome 2.1 into the
devel grimoire to start working out the problems?

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

Eric Sandall wrote:
> Dufflebunk said:
>
> > Just to clarify, I wasn't suggesting removing the option of using
> > either. I was suggesting putting one version or the other in DETAILS, so
> > that the update spell checker script wil work properly for 1/2 the
> > people. But most certainly leave the ability to have either version.
> >
> > As an alternate, we could make pango a meta spell and make 2 other
> > spells, one for each version.
>
>
> I'd rather we not fill our grimoire with meta-spells.  We should instead
> use the provides/require functionality of sorcery.  I'm thinking of
> changing the cdrtools meta-spell into the cdrutils (the actual cdrtools),
> and having both dvdrtools and cdrtools (the old cdrutils) have 'provides
> cdwrite' (cdwrite is from the top of my head, any better suggestions are
> welcome ;)) and updating the wiki page for this: 
> http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=GenericDependences.
>
> This may be a good method for pango, change them to be pango1 and pango2
> (for GNOME1 and GNOME2, respectively), then have them provide 'pango', and
> change all spells which depend on pango to instead say 'requires' (on this
> note, is there an optional_require?).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle