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How about a message on fink-announce, too?

<snip> 
> The only way users will know to use xfree86-upgrade is if they run "fink
> info xfree86".  Perhaps a message on the fink homepage is also warranted?
> 
> I've put these files in experimental/jswhit/x11-system if you want to have
> a look.
> 
> -Jeff
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Jeff Whitaker wrote:

>
> Folks:  Unless I hear objections, I'd like to commit these two
> packages to unstable
>
> xfree86-4.3.0-1.info (which builds the new "unified" xfree86 4.3 package)
>
> and
>
> xfree86-upgrade-20030228-1.info,patch (which is a shell script that
> performs the necessary dpkg -r --force-depends to install xfree86-4.3.0 if
> xfree86-base or xfree86-base-threaded are installed).
>
> The only way users will know to use xfree86-upgrade is if they run "fink
> info xfree86".  Perhaps a message on the fink homepage is also warranted?
>
> I've put these files in experimental/jswhit/x11-system if you want to have
> a look.

I've been using your 4.2.99 packages and the only problems I've had are
with compiling gtk+2 (and everything that requires gtk+2).

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On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 04:36  pm, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>
>>
>> Folks:  Unless I hear objections, I'd like to commit these two
>> packages to unstable
>>
>> xfree86-4.3.0-1.info (which builds the new "unified" xfree86 4.3 
>> package)
>>
>
> I've been using your 4.2.99 packages and the only problems I've had are
> with compiling gtk+2 (and everything that requires gtk+2).
>
Probably it would be easier to try and compile GTK+2.2? Since that 
requires fontconfig/Xft2 which is included in XFree 4.3

A question I would have is - how well does it run compared to Apple's 
X11 0.2? as in, 3D acceleration-wise. I should be able to just have 
both installed, so I can still use quartz-wm, right?

Thanks,

Michel

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GTK+2.2 packages are in experimental/msek/gnome2 already. But I cannot 
move
them into unstable tree because fink will upgrade GTK+2.0 to GTK+2.2 and
fails if user have xfree86-4.2.

I'm wondering how to handle following situation:

                build          run
   xfree86    4.2   4.3     4.2   4.3
   ------------------------------------
   GTK+2.0     OK    NG      OK    OK
   GTK+2.2     NG    OK      NG    OK

I think if fink has a capability of installing older version of package 
when
newer package's dependency is not met, I can move GTK+2.2 packages to 
unstable
if xfree86-base provides xft2 and GTK+2.2 build-depends on it. For 
example,
when fink tries to install pango1-1.2 (part of GTK+2.2) but it's build 
time
dependency or runtime dependency is not met, it tries to install 
pango1-1.0
(part of GTK+2.0) instead. Is it hard to implement?

Another way is to rename GTK+2.2 packages, like pango1-xft2 or 
gtk+2-xft2, and
force users to choose correct packages. It is confusing and sounds bad 
for me.

Any ideas?


On 2003.3.1, at 01:36  AM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>
>>
>> Folks:  Unless I hear objections, I'd like to commit these two
>> packages to unstable
>>
>> xfree86-4.3.0-1.info (which builds the new "unified" xfree86 4.3 
>> package)
>>
>> and
>>
>> xfree86-upgrade-20030228-1.info,patch (which is a shell script that
>> performs the necessary dpkg -r --force-depends to install 
>> xfree86-4.3.0 if
>> xfree86-base or xfree86-base-threaded are installed).
>>
>> The only way users will know to use xfree86-upgrade is if they run 
>> "fink
>> info xfree86".  Perhaps a message on the fink homepage is also 
>> warranted?
>>
>> I've put these files in experimental/jswhit/x11-system if you want to 
>> have
>> a look.
>
> I've been using your 4.2.99 packages and the only problems I've had are
> with compiling gtk+2 (and everything that requires gtk+2).
>
> -- 
> Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd@...
> BSEE (6/86) + BSChem (3/95) + BAEnglish (8/95) + $2.50 = mocha latte
>
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