[1184] in athena10
Re: questions on debathena-thirdparty-* conflicts and priorities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Feb 19 17:04:03 2009
Message-Id: <200902192203.n1JM32wm021073@dit.mit.edu>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, debathena@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:17:35 EST."
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:03:02 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>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.
Well, this is a pain and confusing. I know of at least one faculty member
who does inventor development and I'd really rather keep inventor-dev if
at all possible. We'd really be better off if there were just one of motif
and lesstif but obviously we need to deal with the status quo. I know I had
explicitly put libmotif-dev on the list but would rather live without that
than inventor-dev. Am I correct in presuming that if we drop libmotif-dev
that fixes the conflicts? If yes I'd rather drop that.
I don't know offhand if anything else in the bundle depends on libmotif-dev
(or any other Ubuntu package, for that matter). Is there some Ubuntu package
command option that tells that (what packages require a given package)?
>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.)
We should punt the attach-and-run script and have the package install
/usr/sbin/ivview. I don't recall why we had it in the first place. If someone
stills wants the locker version they can always do "add -f inventor; ivview"
right?
>djview recommends djvulibre-plugin which has a bunch of obsolete browser
>recommendations which cause miscellaneous mayhem. I removed it
>completely, since evince can also display djvu files.
OK, that's fine.
Alex
