Subject: Re: Using ns-remote as 'netscape' package
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/02/2000 15:51:25
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > Will you pull in navigator or communicator?
> > 	Conditional dependency on {communicator,navigator}.
> 
> This does not answer the question.
> This does:
> 
> yui# pkg_admin lsbest /usr/pkgsrc/packages/i386ELF/All/'{communicator,navigator}*'
> /disk3/ftp/pub/NetBSD/packages/i386ELF/All/communicator-4.75.tgz
> 	
	Sorry - I though
	DEPENDS+= {communicator,navigator}:../../www/communicator
	would work if either were installed, but pull in communicator
	if not?

> > > Maybe we should add a 'netscape' meta package that will pull in the
> > > ns-remote and one of the browsers.
> > 
> > 	We end up with most of the same problem - what to call that
> > 	package, though that is a cleaner solution given it allows
> > 	people to install ns-remote without 'netscape' and for ns-remote
> > 	to have its own version number.
> > 
> > 
> > 	How about:
> > 
> > 	ns-remote package stays as it is, with enhanced ns-open.
> > 
> > 	new netscape package that depends on ns-remote and
> > 	{communicator,navigator}, and installs a symlink from netscape
> > 	to ns-open. The netscape package takes its version from the
> > 	communicator/navigator package.
> 
> OK with me

	Right, then thats the plan :)

                David/absolute
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