[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       macports-dev
Subject:    Re: [83340] trunk/dports/graphics/librsvg/Portfile
From:       Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign () macports ! org>
Date:       2011-08-31 20:26:42
Message-ID: FE4724E6-62E7-413E-8DB3-A8E85971DA8E () macports ! org
[Download RAW message or body]


On Aug 31, 2011, at 15:25, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:37, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
> > My understanding for the use of sbin was mistaken. My reason for putting this \
> > script in sbin was to avoid a conflict with port svg2pdf; evidently a bad idea. 
> > I believe the port sources for svg2pdf are unmaintained and obsolete. In my \
> > experience, and others I have conferred with, the pdf files produced by the \
> > svg2pdf program are of poor quality. 
> > A solution to librsvg incorrectly installing sbin/svg2pdf could be to \
> > replace/conflict the ports librsvg and svg2pdf. 
> > Another solution would be to rename the librsvg svg2pdf  script to something like \
> > rsvg2pdf.
> 
> Since the svg2pdf software is unmaintained and its output is bad, it sounds to me \
> like making svg2pdf replaced_by librsvg would be ok. You might have to do some \
> pre-activate magic to deactivate an already-installed svg2pdf port.

Alternately, what if you kept the svg2pdf port, made it depend on librsvg, and just \
made it install this one shell script?

_______________________________________________
macports-dev mailing list
macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org
http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev


[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]