lesstif packaging
Eric Blake
ericblake@comcast.net
Tue Sep 27 14:49:00 GMT 2005
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:15:27AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
> >Is there any general consensus on either of these two points? ie:
> >
> >1.) bziping vs gziping man pages.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see any bzip2'ed man pages in my
> /usr/share/man.
$ find $(IFS=:; echo `manpath`) -name '*.bz2' | wc
77 77 2930
Mainly X11R6. I'm okay with either form of compression, although
bzip2 tends to compress text better than gzip. So maybe a gbs
patch is in order?
>
> >2.) When to package static libs too.
>
> I'd say that was entirely your call.
Providing only the dynamic is reasonable, although if I were
packaging it, I would provide both static and dynamic if it weren't
too much extra effort on my part.
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Eric Blake
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