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Re: questions on debathena-thirdparty-* conflicts and priorities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Feb 19 16:25:24 2009
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:24:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu, debathena@mit.edu
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>
> [Mostly questions for Alex.]
>
> thirdparty-libraries requires libmotif-dev, while thirdparty-graphics (as
> modified) recommends (and originally required) inventor-dev, which
> requires lesstif2-dev, which conflicts with libmotif-dev. It's currently
> possible to have both -libraries and -graphics, but installing them in
> that order (without having the overall -thirdparty package) will by
> default cause -libraries to be removed, so I'd like to punt inventor-dev
> entirely. Also, inventor-clients tries to install /usr/sbin/ivview,
> which is currently an attachandrun glue script vs. the inventor locker,
> which should clearly get punted. (But if we should be punting an
> installed inventor for the locker version instead, let me know.)
I think lesstif2-dev is supposed to be a free software equivalent of
libmotif-dev, so you probably want to just replacing libmotif-dev with
lesstif2-dev in thirdparty-libraries, since it is likely better maintained
in Debian/Ubuntu than the non-free version.
-Tim Abbott
