On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Florian La Roche wrote:

>> But the point is, if nobody has asked for them, or used them for several
>> years, why bring them in.  It would add to the support load without
>> benefiting anyone.
>
> Suggestion was to move "/usr/bin/dot" into its own subrpm which should
> work similar to "*-libs" subrpms. Move the app into e.g. "graphviz-base"
> and have the "graphviz" rpm depend on "graphviz-base".

Just so there is not a question of: "nobody has asked for 
them, or used them for several years" -- I use 'dot' heavily 
and daily.  I think doxygen will as well, when available, as 
an 'Enhances:'

later:
> I guess that is what I'm asking.  Is anyone using lua and/or 
> ocaml? I don't want to put in a new language if nobody is 
> using it. I also don't want a regular Scientific Linux 
> package dependant on packages that are outside of the 
> distribution.  I know that currently, graphviz is dependant 
> on outside packages, and I'm trying to fix that

I think that with EPEL having it (as I recall after SL), and
 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471097
in the wings, SL will not be carrying that load alone for long

As to lua and ocaml, I know lua hooks were drilled into rpm at 
one point; I carry and locally rebuild an ocaml (certainly in 
since upstream's Fedora 10) as well incident to 'mediawiki' 
and 'scilab' (since Fedora 10) which are reasonably mainstream 
and all in RawHide upstream.

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