[83340] trunk/dports/graphics/librsvg/Portfile

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Aug 31 13:26:42 PDT 2011


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?



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