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From: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] transfig-native: remove, nothing depends on it
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On 09/16/2013 05:30 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 16 September 2013 10:15, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com> wrote:
>> On 16 September 2013 09:58, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com> wrote:
>>> Is there a specify reason that we need to remove it ? transfig
>>> provides fig2dev which is used for building the documentation,
>>> for example, gstreamer and libtheora may use fig2dev.
>>
>> Considering nothing depends on it, clearly not in stock oe-core.
>> Presumably you have some patches to enable the documentation builds
>> and add the missing dependencies?
>
> It also appears that GStreamer (at least gstreamer itself, HEAD of
> master and 0.10) doesn't actually use fig files for the documentation,
> just PNG.
>
> If we're talking about a large number of packages then I'd agree, but
> if we're saying that oe-core should have imake and transfig-native so
> that if you patch libtheora to build documentation it has diagrams,
> then I'm not sure that's a suitable trade-off.
>

No, I don't have anything depend on transfig-native, I just worried about
that many packages use it, I did a grep in a world build directory just now
, didn't find any more packages use it.

// Robert

> Ross
>
>