From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:21:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20080827102131.49e018ee@hyperion.delvare> References: <7vprnzt7d5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <1219664940.9583.42.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <7vy72kek6y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080826145719.GB5046@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1219764860.4471.13.camel@gaara.bos.redhat.com> <1219766398.7107.87.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080826182349.0a1a75e2@hyperion.delvare> <20080826192039.5ffa6eec@hyperion.delvare> <48B50574.6020502@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Takashi Iwai , David Woodhouse , Kristian =?ISO-8859-1?B?SPhnc2Jlcmc=?= , Johannes Schindelin , users@kernel.org, Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Ericsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 27 10:23:24 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYGJH-0005rk-Pe for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:23:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753261AbYH0IWM (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:22:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754059AbYH0IWL (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:22:11 -0400 Received: from zone0.gcu-squad.org ([212.85.147.21]:9995 "EHLO services.gcu-squad.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754670AbYH0IWK (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:22:10 -0400 Received: from jdelvare.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.121.182] helo=hyperion.delvare) by services.gcu-squad.org (GCU Mailer Daemon) with esmtpsa id 1KYHGg-00078Y-Ef (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (envelope-from ) ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:24:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <48B50574.6020502@op5.se> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:42:44 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:50:25 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > >> netpbm has almost 300 in /usr/bin. > > > > Ouch. (I guess I shouldn't have asked.) > > > > Does netpbm do anything convert (ImageMagick) doesn't? I'd be happy to > > get rid of netpbm. > > > > netpbm-progs (the rpm containing all the 320 programs in /usr/bin) is > required for xmlto to function properly, which in turn is necessary > to build the git documentation. > > This is on Fedora 9, btw. On openSuse systems it is required by sax2-gui only. But just because it is used by these 2 packages doesn't mean that ImageMagick's convert can't be used instead. Someone would need to check what exactly xmlto and sax2-gui use in netpbm and whether convert could be used instead. I'd do if I only I had the time... :/ -- Jean Delvare