Need some packages in EPEL

[Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale]

Hi folks,

I have been building some packages for Planet CCRMA on CentOS. First I
would like to point out that the CentOS version of the Planet relies
on EPEL whenever possible as a policy.

At the moment, I am rebuilding supercollider and its extensions, which
needs w3m-el, which in turn depends on lots of stuff. Here is the list
of missing packages:

apel
Canna
flim
neXtaw
w3m-el
xemacs
xemacs-packages-base
xemacs-packages-extra

These are just too big for me to maintain, whether as part of EPEL (I
am not even a Fedora/EPEL contributor at the moment) or as part of the
Planet (probably worse). Can they be added to the wish list?

I just rebuilt all of these on CentOS 5, they all build out of the
box. I have not tried to use them but I guess there should be no
issue; I just don't want to take the responsibility to maintain them.

-- 
Arnaud

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:29:39PM +0200, Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale wrote:
>  Hi folks,
>  
>  neXtaw 
I can take care of that in EPEL.

--
Pat

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale wrote:
>  At the moment, I am rebuilding supercollider and its extensions, which
>  needs w3m-el, which in turn depends on lots of stuff. Here is the list
>  of missing packages: 
Just by looking at the list, I guess that they're pretty much listed just 
because the Fedora elisp packages (and maybe some yours) are built for XEmacs 
in addition to GNU Emacs, not because they'd really need XEmacs; and some of 
them in turn are XEmacs' dependencies.  So unless there's sufficient interest 
in having XEmacs in EPEL, I think it'd be perfectly acceptable to just 
disable the XEmacs parts for now.

[Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale]

Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta(a)iki.fi&gt; writes:

>  Just by looking at the list, I guess that they're pretty much
> listed just 
>  because the Fedora elisp packages (and maybe some yours) are built for XEmacs 
>  in addition to GNU Emacs, not because they'd really need XEmacs; and some of 
>  them in turn are XEmacs' dependencies.  So unless there's sufficient interest 
>  in having XEmacs in EPEL, I think it'd be perfectly acceptable to just 
>  disable the XEmacs parts for now. 
That's what I did. It was quite easy actually, I just had to do minor
changes to the spec files of flim and w3m-el.

-- 
Arnaud

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:12:45PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>  On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale wrote:
>  >
>  > At the moment, I am rebuilding supercollider and its extensions, which
>  > needs w3m-el, which in turn depends on lots of stuff. Here is the list
>  > of missing packages:
>  
>  Just by looking at the list, I guess that they're pretty much listed just 
>  because the Fedora elisp packages (and maybe some yours) are built for XEmacs 
>  in addition to GNU Emacs, not because they'd really need XEmacs; and some of 
>  them in turn are XEmacs' dependencies.  So unless there's sufficient interest 
>  in having XEmacs in EPEL, I think it'd be perfectly acceptable to just 
>  disable the XEmacs parts for now. 
I have packaged xemacs in a 'private' repo in EL5 for some time now, and
I have a user who use it to typeset tex documents. So far he had no
issues. But I don't want to commit to maintain xemacs in EL-5, fearing
that it could become time consuming. I would agree to be co-maintainer,
though, if it is wanted.

--
Pat