From: Matt B. <wal...@ma...> - 2008-03-31 02:45:17
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At 9:45 PM -0400 3/30/08, Robert Krawitz wrote: > From: Greg Troxel <gd...@ir...> > Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:12:02 -0400 > > >From the pkgsrc viewpoint, that all sounds fine. In order to support > multiple installs, it would be nice if all files with non-versioned > names (between 50/51/52, ignoring micro)) were configurable off easily > via --disable switches to configure. perhaps this is ok already. But > pkgsrc may just support 52 and nothing else, absent you asking that I > make it do 50 also (I'm not sure why it's needed). > >Ah yes, the little problem of filename conflicts. Of course, the >header files have that problem, but ordinary users wouldn't install >them (the idea is to make the runtime be multi-version compatible). > >Perhaps one way of doing it would be to make cups-genppdupdate be in >its own package? Maybe we should rename it cups-gutenprintupdate or >gutenprint-cupsupdate. > FWIW, now that HP DeskJets will be supported in 5.2, I don't plan on allowing/supporting multiple versions of 5.x.x to be installed in Mac OS X. I will still allow v4.2.7 to be installed concurrently with v5.x.x but not 50/51/52. -- Matt Broughton Only relatives are absolute. |