Hi Riccardo,

Am 20.05.2014 um 08:00 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>:
> Progressing, I have now to preparecthe "backend" for the GNUstep
> packages.
> 
> The backend provides the graphical part and can be configured with
> different libraries,s upporting different dependencies.
> 
> The best rendering is currently supported with the "cairo" library, but
> one can also use the older "xlib" backend which has thus much less
> dependencies and is useful e.g. on a server where just a couple of small
> programs are run without much graphics.
> 
> Does mgar support his? How?
> Essentially, I would build "gnustep-back-xlib" and "gnustep-back-cairo"
> and they should be installed mutually exclusive.
> All other applications need to depend on either one or the other, the
> choice is free, but one is needed.
> 
> On systems like debian, one builds two packages and puts them mutually
> on dependency.
> 
> On other systems like gentoo linux, I would build only one package
> "gnustep-back" and then be able to pass an option, a flavour or
> something like that to the time being.

We have alternatives for that. You can look at gnuplot which has one basic
alternative and one with wxWidgets:
  
https://buildfarm.opencsw.org/source/xref/opencsw/csw/mgar/pkg/gnuplot/trunk/Makefile

Best regards

  — Dago

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