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Re: 9.3 Linux: Tcl/Tk missing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Apr 21 14:08:57 2004
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:08:53 -0400
I've had out-of-band conversations with Red Hat on this issue.
The quarterly update is supposed to put back some of this stuff,
but they really SHOULD update their bug report to reflect this change.
-wdc
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 01:28, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 18:21, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> > On Linux 9.3.1, /usr/lib/libtcl.so and /usr/lib/libtk.so are missing. I have
> > a number of applications that depend on these.
>
> Presumably only at compile time, yes? How do you build these packages
> on Solaris?
>
> RHEL 3 dropped the tcl-devel package, among many other -devel packages.
> The justification given in
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101858
> is that they want to limit their "ABI exposure," which makes no sense in
> this case. Andrew claims many of the -devel packages will be added back
> into the next quarterly update of RHEL 3; if so, we will put them into a
> patch release as soon as that comes out.
>
