| Summary: | rrdtool 1.2.x does not depend on gd anymore | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Lance Albertson (RETIRED) <ramereth> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Netmon project <netmon> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.rrdtool.user/5509 | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Change made to rrdtool-1.2.11-r2 (rev bumped it). Reopen if there are problems. |
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: ===== 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 :) ===== I recommend we remove the gd dep on all 1.2.x rrdtool ebuilds.