Bug 106682 - rrdtool 1.2.x does not depend on gd anymore
Bug#: 106682 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: netmon@gentoo.org Reported By: ramereth@gentoo.org
Component: Ebuilds
URL:  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.rrdtool.user/5509
Summary: rrdtool 1.2.x does not depend on gd anymore
Keywords:  
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2005-09-20 07:58 0000
Description:   Opened: 2005-09-20 07:58 0000
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 From Lance Albertson 2005-09-21 18:18:41 0000 -------
Change made to rrdtool-1.2.11-r2 (rev bumped it). Reopen if there are problems.