RFC: gnome-libs packaging

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Yaakov S wrote:

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> Gerrit,
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> BTW, I forgot to mention; regardless of how I package gnome-libs, that
> there will need to be a minor change to libgnomeui2.  Most of the
> pixmaps usually installed by libgnomeui2 are relics from GNOME 1.4, and
> are (and need to be) included in libgnomeui-1.4.2.  This will cause
> files to be clobbered, etc.
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> As you can see from GNOME CVS
> )http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libgnomeui/images/), only
> gnome-about-logo.png is new to GNOME 2, having been added (only) almost
> three years ago, where the others date back over six years to GNOME
> 0.whatever. :-)
> 
> My precedent for this is Gentoo Linux.  This issue was first raised with
> 2.8.1 in Bugzilla[2], and all ebuilds since include this patch[3].
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> [1] http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libgnomeui/images/
> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68698
> [3]
> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gnome-base/libgnomeui/files/libgnomeui-2.8.0-ditch_ancient_pics.patch?rev=HEAD&hideattic=1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

However, this requires libgnomeui2 to pull libgnomeui.  Sholdn't we
better create a separate package including only the pixmaps which is
pulled from libgnomeui or libgnomeui2?


Gerrit
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