[packman] Why do we build libcaca ?

[Cristian Morales Vega]

2011/2/25 Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser at opensuse.org>:
> Is there a specific reason why we build libcaca in our
> repository ? (currently in Essentials)
>
> We build 0.99.beta17
> 11.4 has 0.99.beta17
> 11.3 has 0.99.beta16
> 11.2 has 0.99.beta16
> 11.1 has 0.99.beta13b
>
> There is no "special" dependency in it, so there is no
> "uncrippling" reason to build it ourselves.
>
> Is it just because < 11.4 have older versions ?
> If so, wouldn't it be okay to build against 0.99.beta16 on 11.3
> and 11.2 ? (rather than introducing an upgrade side-effect in
> Essentials)
>
> Please let me know if there is a good reason of having the
> latest in our repository (other than the above, in which case I
> will only build libcaca for 11.1 and SLE_11 :)).

openal-soft, also in Essentials, seems to be the same case.