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  • From: Treeve Jelbert <treeve01 AT pi.be>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re:[SM-Users] Xfree86 spell change
  • Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:22:03 +0200

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On Thursday 18 September 2003 15:16, Hamish Greig wrote:
> the xfree86 spell is being forked and reincarnated.
> xfree86 will revert to 4.3.0.1 the last stable release and all the bleeding
> edge band-aid brigade can use xfree86-devel which is getting upped to
> 4.3.99.12
> There were a few spells in the grimoire that explicitly depended on
> xfree86. The now require x11-libs as we have 4 providers for x11-libs and 3
> for x11-server (xfree86-libs, xfree86, xfree86-devel and xdirectfb)
> Nearly every spell that relied on xfree86 should now build with
> xfree86-libs alone. There will be some minor depends bugs but nothing for
> anyone to have a cow over.
> A few still have optional depends for xfree86 but as soon as some spells
> "provides" are fixed sorcery will be updated to handle "optional_requires".
> Hamish


I updated the test codex today, and something forced a compile of xfree86,
although I had xfree86-devel installed.

on investigation I found that ImageMagic and transcode both had
optional_depends for xfree86


Regards, Treeve

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