[El] GDAL 1.7.3 in elgis-testing

[Viji V Nair]

Hi

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote:
>> Two alternatives:
>> - provide /usr/share/maven2/poms/ as "everbody" does, or
>
> Is it so bad to do so?
> (compared to the other not-so-satisfying options we have otherwise)

Can be done, but this is not a good idea to have only this without the
maven2. maven2 will add many non base-packages to the distro

>
>> In conclusion: for elgis-java, require maven2; for elgis-nojava, don't
>
> I would really much prefer to maintain only one gdal core package.
>
> If I simply remove the maven2 dependency what would it break?
> The JNI library would still be available, wouldn't it?

The jnis will be available
>
> Isn't there a concept of optional dependency (like it picks it up if
> it finds it)

This can be done with an if condition, we can modify the spec file
according to distro, so if it finds maven2 in pkg-config.

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Thanks
Viji