Subject: Re: Copyright issues
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/27/2000 16:53:19
[ On Thursday, July 27, 2000 at 15:18:28 (+0200), Thomas Klausner wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Copyright issues
>
> Mutt made be believe that Martin Husemann wrote:
> > (Besides that, this pkg needs the pixel depths of the screen burned into
> > it, i.e. -DBPP16 or -DBPP8; argh!)
> 
> As does RASMOL (biology/rasmol). Perhaps we should use a common
> variable for such packages (RASMOL has a RASMOL_DEPTH in
> mk.conf.example).

well a compile-time variable in pkgsrc is pretty much useless for a
binary package that's likely to run on a machine other than the build
machine....  :-(

> Or we could teach the authors X programming, if we
> would know it ourselves ;-)

I thought most X programmers had learned these rules *long* ago!

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