Waiting for xfree86? [Was: guile-1.6.4-1]

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:48:35PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> > I think it makes sense to upload 1.5.0 versions of both packages
>> > together.  But lilypond also depends on tetex, and tetex is still
>> > waiting for tiff and XFree.
>> 
>> That's a problem since Harold decided to wait for 1.5.0 becoming the
>> official release before moving XFree over.
>
>Then what to do with packages that depend on X libraries such as
>tetex-x11.  Do we really need to make special X-less release, ie,
>rebuild tetex and ghostscript without X11 first?

Why are we waiting for these libraries?  Do they export variables or
functions which rely on new 64 bit types?

cgf