Please Help - can't install ufraw
David Evans
devans at macports.org
Tue Oct 19 09:55:37 PDT 2010
On 10/19/10 8:48 AM, David Evans wrote:
> On 10/19/10 8:31 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:24, David Evans wrote:
>>> On 10/19/10 8:14 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>> Why don't we delete that variant and make the xpdf port always do that?
>>>>
>>> I agree but there is a political history behind this.
>>>
>>> Xpdf was first and poppler is an off-shoot of the original xpdf code written
>>> as a library to allow other projects to use it.
>>>
>>> The two have diverged some-what and it has only been relatively recently
>>> that
>>> xpdf was modified to allow linking to poppler rather than use its own code.
>>>
>>> Xpdf web site still doesn't mention poppler although it is the variant
>>> that is
>>> currently being maintained (xpdf hasn't had a change in a year and then only
>>> minor).
>>>
>>> But the solution that you propose would be the one that works.
>>>
>>> Perhaps just making the +with_poppler variant a default variant would
>>> fix the
>>> problem and allow xpdf purists to use xpdf without poppler (if they
>>> really never
>>> want to use poppler).
>> If the variant is kept, I would want it renamed to just "+poppler" (we do not name variants with "with_" or "without_" prefixes in MacPorts).
>>
>> Also if the variant is kept my addition of the conflicts keywords needs to be fixed to only apply the conflict if it's actually relevant.
>>
>>
> Well, saying it that way sounds a bit too contrived to me so I would
> vote to just make the poppler dependency
> the default behavior without any variant.
>
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Conflict between xpdf and poppler resolved in r72519, r72520 as
suggested by Ryan. Conflicts statements
removed.
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