[Clipart] [Fwd: [Bug 98522] Fix openclipart-0.15 ebuild and future releases]

[Jon Phillips]

Please check out this bug I've posted to the gentoo list. I've been
having a discussion with the gentoo devs about their gentoo ebuild of
ocal.

Jon

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: bugzilla-daemon at gentoo.org
> To: jon at rejon.org
> Subject: [Bug 98522] Fix openclipart-0.15 ebuild and future releases
> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:42:26 +0000
> 
> Clear-Text: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98522
> Secure: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98522
> 
> 
> smithj at gentoo.org changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
>          Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------- Additional Comments From smithj at gentoo.org  2005-07-10 07:42 PDT -------
> as for the catagory, i personally don't care. the origional bug was filed to
> desktop-misc at g.o, and most of our packages go in x11-misc. if the media herds
> will be willing to take over the package, then it can be moved. until then, i'd
> like to keep it in x11-misc.
> 
> as for symlinking and slotting... i don't see the point. afaik, the only
> difference between releases is a few scripts and an _increase_ in the number of
> images. that makes slotting somewhat pointless.
> 
> even more use flags also seems pointless. it already has 6 rather cryptic ones...
> 
> the ebuilds you reference also undo many of the features that the one in portage
> contains... if you would like to create a diff against that of exactly what you
> would like to add/subtract, i would be willing to look. however, i rather like
> the current ebuild
> 
> one more thing... if you want openclipart to be available on more platforms,
> file a new bug entitled "x11-misc/openclipart arch testing" and CC all the
> relevent platforms. be sure to include only _relevent_ platforms... i doubt arm
> will want an ebuild that creates 7390245872039458263409 huge image files for no
> reason (as an example)
> 
> if there is a good reason to do any of this which i am somehow missing, either
> email me or reopen the bug
> 
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