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Re: [ITA] libXft/libXft2/libXft-devel-2.1.7: A client-side font API for X applications
>>>>> Brian Dessent writes:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>> As Angelo tried to report on the wrong mailing list, this is totally
>> broken. How are you supposed to compile any X11 apps after installing
>> this package, without manually adding -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 to
>> CPPFLAGS? Simply installing libXft-devel causes all the X11 headers to
>> no longer work, because the only thing left under /usr/include/X11 is
>> now Xft/.
> Furthermore, with the current situation, if you install libXft-devel and
> then reinstall xorg-x11-devel, the libXft headers (and anything else you
> might have installed in the directory /usr/include/X11) are deleted when
> the symlink is remade! That is clearly broken. You can't have two
> packages sharing ownership of a directory like that. Please fix.
Will fix it this evening.
By the way my libXaw3d-devel has the same problem. So I will switch both
of them back to the /usr/X11R6 hierarchy an provide a post-install script
for the /usr/include/X11 symlink.
> Brian
Ciao
Volker