Re: bitpim binary modules breaks Gentoo QA policies

"Stephen Wood" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/4/06, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > i maintain netpbm and make sure that it stays up-to-date ...
> > > so the proposed idea seems like it'll work just dandy
> >
> > It won't unless whoever provides the bitpim ebuild makes it
> > remove those binaries before the install phase.
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> this shouldnt be a problem


There was a reason why we put in such old netpbm binaries, which I forget.
It might have been the size of the files, or just being able to find
binaries for WIndows, Mac, Linux.  I'll look at this again, and check
wxPython perhaps has the capability that we need yet.

Stephen

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