[83340] trunk/dports/graphics/librsvg/Portfile
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Aug 31 13:25:45 PDT 2011
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.
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