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* why does libpng16 require libpng-doc?
@ 2015-02-08 20:08 Andrew Schulman
  2015-02-09  0:37 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Schulman @ 2015-02-08 20:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

As of now, libpng16 requires libpng-doc.  Is this a mistake?  It seems to defeat
the purpose of splitting the docs into a separate package, since we have to
install both.  And for those of us who are only getting libpng16 because it's
required by another package, we're forced to install libpng-doc too.

Thanks,
Andrew


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* Re: why does libpng16 require libpng-doc?
  2015-02-08 20:08 why does libpng16 require libpng-doc? Andrew Schulman
@ 2015-02-09  0:37 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
  2015-02-09  1:29   ` Andrew Schulman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Yaakov Selkowitz @ 2015-02-09  0:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

On Sun, 2015-02-08 at 15:08 -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> As of now, libpng16 requires libpng-doc.  Is this a mistake?  It seems to defeat
> the purpose of splitting the docs into a separate package, since we have to
> install both.  And for those of us who are only getting libpng16 because it's
> required by another package, we're forced to install libpng-doc too.

libpng-doc only includes the standard license and README docs, and a
single manpage; it is not an extensive API documentation package.  But
it may cause more confusion than intended, so I'll juggle things around
again in -2.


Yaakov




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* Re: why does libpng16 require libpng-doc?
  2015-02-09  0:37 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
@ 2015-02-09  1:29   ` Andrew Schulman
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Schulman @ 2015-02-09  1:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

> On Sun, 2015-02-08 at 15:08 -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > As of now, libpng16 requires libpng-doc.  Is this a mistake?  It seems to defeat
> > the purpose of splitting the docs into a separate package, since we have to
> > install both.  And for those of us who are only getting libpng16 because it's
> > required by another package, we're forced to install libpng-doc too.
> 
> libpng-doc only includes the standard license and README docs, and a
> single manpage; it is not an extensive API documentation package.  But
> it may cause more confusion than intended, so I'll juggle things around
> again in -2.

OK. Thanks.


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