public inbox for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: netpbm: repackaging request
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5277E0AB.1020906@cwilson.fastmail.fm> (raw)

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1092 bytes --]

netpbm maintainer (Yaakov?) --

The netpbm package is currently subdivided into the following:
    libnetpbm-devel
    libnetpbm10
    netpbm

As the attached jpg [*] shows, netpbm pulls in a number of other 
packages, including libnetpbm10 and various graphics libs as 
appropriate. However, it also pulls in libX11_6 and perl.

The only application that requires libX11 is /usr/bin/pamx.exe ("display 
Netpbm image in X Window System window").

Further, most of the scripts provided by netpbm are POSIX shell scripts, 
along with only a few perl scripts (listed below):

/usr/bin/pbmtox10bm
/usr/bin/pnmflip
/usr/bin/pnmquant
/usr/bin/pnmquantall
/usr/bin/ppmfade
/usr/bin/ppmquant
/usr/bin/ppmrainbow
/usr/bin/ppmshadow

Would it be possible to subdivide the netpbm package to reduce the 
dependencies of the main subcomponent?  E.g.

netpbm
netpbm-X
netpbm-perl

(along with the existing libnetpbm-devel and libnetpbm10)?


[*] compressed into an xz file because the mailing list software is 
ridiculously overzealous, as this is the fourth attempt at sending this 
message.

-- 
Chuck



[-- Attachment #2: netpbm-strip-base-and-requirements.jpg.xz --]
[-- Type: application/octet-stream, Size: 62128 bytes --]

                 reply	other threads:[~2013-11-04 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=5277E0AB.1020906@cwilson.fastmail.fm \
    --to=cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm \
    --cc=cygwin-apps@cygwin.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).