On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 18:40 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote: > > These optional builds don't help much, unless people are using gentoo > > (or other source-based distros). > > > > If the binary package was built with glade support then distros are > > unlikely to change their binary package in the future to remove the > > glade support. That would be an ABI break. > > gtk-sharp has a separate glib-sharp-2.0.pc pkg-config file, so it's > relatively easy to provide multiple binary packages from one source > package or am I missing something?
It might be possible, but distros generally don't do that. And once they've released a binary package and called it stable then they can't change that (unless they do a parallel install and deprecate the old binary package). gnome-python-extras is an example of an all-in-one source tarball that's currently causing me problems because it's packaged as an all-in-one binary package on debian/Ubuntu. -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
