>
> > Debian happily uses some derivatives of commercial developmental suits.
> > The most obvious example would be -dmotif and -smotif packages in contrib.
>
> OK, point taken, -smotif libg++ packagres won't be possible without
> a libg++27-altdev. (Do I care? no, but others may, I agree).
-dmotif too, 'cause -dev packages also contain _headers_.
>
> > Furthermore, as this is X development, this would require
> > all X libraries to be libc5 compatible (as far as I understand, they are
> > both libc5 and libc6 compatible and probably won't require -altdev or
> > libc5-compat package. Correct me if I am wrong.)
>
> Well, theoretically you aparrently are wrong, but practically you
> apear to be right :): most "knowledgable" people warned me (and others)
> that the libc5 compiled xlib packagres would be sure to contain
> interesting features (that people with little faith would call
> bugs, as Linus remarked about 2.1.44), but so far many X apps have
> been re compiled for glibc, using the libc5 compiled xlib packages,
> and no "features" have shown up yet, as far as I'm aware.
>
> This could still mean though, that the libc6 compiled xlib packages
> do give is those eagerly sought after features when compiling
> libc5 stuff with them, but let's hope that won't happen.
>
> > The only frequently
> > required library for X development wich is _not_ part of standard X
> > distribution left is xpm. Therefore I was wondering about availability
> > of xpm4.7-altdev.
>
> xmp may well posess the same features as xlib does, i.e. maybe we
> don't need an xmp-altdev.
>
> > Yes, but even _after_ hamm is releaed the will be many people with
> > libc5 Motif, doing _development_.
>
> (Actually, I'm not aware of Motif packages needing libg++, but never
> mind).
ddd
>
> > PS Do you think this discussion should rather go to debian-devel ?
>
> Yes, I do, but since I guess this discussion is over now, it
> doesn't really matter any more (well, at least we agree about
> everything I believe).
>
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> joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> #see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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