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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