[Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Gregory J. Ward]

Well, I'm in a quandary on this, because I don't know how valuable  
having a Debian package is to the Radiance community relative to  
breaking most of the existing scene descriptions, if that's what it  
means.

-Greg

> From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd at bzed.de>
> Date: October 26, 2007 9:39:53 AM PDT
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> sorry for the late reply, just didn't find the time before.
>
>> Having compatibility links as an option during installation is  
>> fine with
>> me if it defaults to "yes" or provides a clear explanation of the
>> pitfalls of not installing the links.  I guess we only need a link  
>> for
>> genbox at this point, though I would like to keep "rview" in there as
>> well for consistency with extant documentation.
>
> They can't default to yes as they'd be added in automatic testing
> environments (where all debconf questions are answered with the  
> default
> value) and installing the conflicting package could fail then.
>
> I'm all open to other suggestions, we should find the final solution
> within the next months, though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernd
>
> -- 
> Bernd Zeimetz
> <bernd at bzed.de>                         <http://bzed.de/>