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Bug 106682 - rrdtool 1.2.x does not depend on gd anymore
Summary: rrdtool 1.2.x does not depend on gd anymore
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Netmon project
URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.d...
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Reported: 2005-09-20 07:58 UTC by Lance Albertson (RETIRED)
Modified: 2005-09-21 18:18 UTC (History)
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Description Lance Albertson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-20 07:58:39 UTC
I was looking around and noticed something odd about the deps we have for
rrdtool and what upstream says we need. I asked on their ML and got this
response from their author:

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Lance,

rrdtool 1.2.x does not depend on gd anymore

tobi
Today Lance Albertson wrote:

>> I was looking at the ebuild we have for rrdtool and noticed there was a
>> runtime dep for gd. I looked through your source tarball docs and
>> couldn't find a reference for needing that package at all. Was that
>> something that was needed many ages ago and not needed anymore, or what
>> is the story behind that? I'd like to take out that dep if we don't need
>> it anymore on rrdtool  :) 

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I recommend we remove the gd dep on all 1.2.x rrdtool ebuilds.
Comment 1 Lance Albertson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-21 18:18:41 UTC
Change made to rrdtool-1.2.11-r2 (rev bumped it). Reopen if there are problems.