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Re: why does libpng16 require libpng-doc?
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 20:29:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: why does libpng16 require libpng-doc?
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- References: <khgfda1daprrna24k9150onumksfkb3qke at 4ax dot com> <1423442255 dot 8420 dot 3 dot camel at cygwin dot com>
> On Sun, 2015-02-08 at 15:08 -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > As of now, libpng16 requires libpng-doc. Is this a mistake? It seems to defeat
> > the purpose of splitting the docs into a separate package, since we have to
> > install both. And for those of us who are only getting libpng16 because it's
> > required by another package, we're forced to install libpng-doc too.
>
> libpng-doc only includes the standard license and README docs, and a
> single manpage; it is not an extensive API documentation package. But
> it may cause more confusion than intended, so I'll juggle things around
> again in -2.
OK. Thanks.
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