Olivier Thauvin wrote: > Le Vendredi 13 Juin 2003 17:43, Guillaume Cottenceau a �crit : >> David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Could we maybe get perl-OpenGL packaged instead? >> >> We try to not put "any" library, when there is no program >> requiring it in the distro..
There can't be a program requiring it until it's packaged. Sometime last year I wanted to package such a program. IIRC, it required perl-OpenGL-0.5, but I could only get 0.4 packaged, as 0.5 wouldn't compile, and the program author said Debian somehow got it to compile. Or something like that. > I do not agree with you, Guillaume. Someone can use the lib for a personnal > works. Somes are easy to package and maintain, no programs in distro use it > but you can can need it for your stuff. Yes, exactly. Thanks Olivier. > If you begin in this way, you can say lot of rpm an not usefull and should be > removed. > > Add to this someone can be happy to find the lib allready packaged when it > build a rpm which use it. >
