it is a bit confusing that there is both a gdal-grass and a grass-gdal-
plugins package (by versions I see the second one is gdal v1.6, while
gdal-grass is v1.5)
Perhaps the grass-gdal-plugins one should be renamed gdal1.6-grass or
otherwise.
Also, I notice that the qgis-grass-plugin package depends on both grass
and qgis. Does it have to? I notice in the debian packaging that it only
depends on the equivalent of gdal-grass, and not the full grass package.
i.e. it should be able to be used to view GRASS data without a grass
binary install present. (??)
not really sure if any changes should be made here, but I thought I'd
raise the issue.
Replying to [ticket:57 hamish]:
> it is a bit confusing that there is both a gdal-grass and a grass-gdal-
plugins package (by versions I see the second one is gdal v1.6, while
gdal-grass is v1.5)
gdal-grass depends on 1.5 and gdal16-grass depends on 1.6 - there is no
grass-gdal-plugins (anymore?).
qgis-grass-plugin depends on gdal-grass.
gdal16-grass is outdated as there was a qgis-grass-plugin (as there was a
qgis) that depended on GDAL 1.6. I reverted that on an advice from
FrankW.
> Perhaps the grass-gdal-plugins one should be renamed gdal1.6-grass or
otherwise.
If that was the case, I must have already fixed that.
> Also, I notice that the qgis-grass-plugin package depends on both grass
and qgis.
> Do it have to?
Yes, the QGIS grass plugin depends on the GRASS libraries (in the
toolbox).
> I notice in the debian packaging that it only depends on the equivalent
of gdal-grass,
On Debian gdal-grass depends on the full grass package. If I'm not
mistaken
grass rasters should be viewable with just gdal-grass present, it doesn't
need the grass plugin at all.