On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:17:29PM +0200, Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote:
Yes,
I created these packages.
Hi Hendrik, thanks very much for creating these packages.
I think you do have a very good point about the naming convention. However, I am not sure whether I can just use "mdk" as Mandriva does on the packages, as that could create some confusion about where they came from. As fas as I could find out, Mandriva itself (and people who are in some ways affiliated) use this extension. I am open to suggestions, so if you have a suggestion for a naming extention that is clear and describes where the package is for, please tell me.
We've never been told by Mandrake that our naming convention was problematic, so I think including 'mdk' in it should not pose a problem. I've done this myself in the past without issue, so would suggest it here as well.
I suppose that the static builds could be used in any distro that can handle .rpm files. However Mandriva uses a menu (like Debian's menu), and as far as I know, the static packages don't contain a menu entry that the .hjh packages do have.
Yes, I also ran into this specific issue when creating mandrake RPMs of Inkscape.
Also, I did build a x86_64 versoin of inkscape, actually I began with that, as that didn't exist yet, and people were asking for it (especially at Mandriva sites and fora). I don't think that the static build can replace that, can it?
Thanks for putting in the effort for creating this. You're right, AFAIK, no one so far has explored x86_64 builds before you.
Bryce