[Clipart] AMD64 and Gentoo

[Gavin Panella]

Hi Jon,

I put a new ebuild up a few moments after the first announcement of 
0.15.

One thing though - there has just appeared an ebuild in the main 
Portage tree for 0.12, as x11-misc/openclipart. The main differences 
are:


- That ebuild has several options (via use flags). You can choose what 
what file-types to install, and to compress or not. My ebuild installs 
the library as is, except for docs which are put into 
/usr/share/doc/openclipart-xxx.

- My ebuild installs to /usr/share/clipart, and the one in the tree 
installs to /usr/share/clipart/openclipart.

- My ebuild might incur the wrath of Portage devs because it does not 
use the Portage-provided doins (etc.) methods for creating the image 
directory. I don't check for permissions or ownership so there could be 
problems. It would be easy to check.

- The ebuild in the tree is in x11-misc, which is, IMHO, wrong. I chose 
media-gfx, but I may be wrong too :-)

- That ebuild is old.


Also, the ebuild in the tree will eventually have problems because it 
generates a large list of files to install and passes it in one go to 
doins. It might work now, but when the list gets longer (perhaps 
already too long with more recent library releases) it will fail.

So, I'd be very grateful if you would push my ebuild through, but it 
might be difficult seeing as there is already one in the tree. If 
you're talking to the right people, perhaps ask which is better of the 
above differences, and I'll merge the two ebuilds. Then we can submit 
the resulting Frankenstein Monster, erm, beautiful offspring.

Cheerio, Gavin.

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On Jul 9, 2005, at 8:58, Jon Phillips wrote:

> <topPost /> ;)
>
> If you have built a new ebuild for this release, I will spend time
> pushing this through through the gentoo channels on sat. Is that
> amicable? I think this would be very helpful. As there is not platform
> specific code, I think we should open the floodgates on the
> architectures this ebuild supports.
>
> Jon