A fellow was trying to install Tux Paint and when he went to install
SDL_ttf on his Red Hat box (he grabbed the RPM off of www.libsdl.org)
and tried to install it, he got an error about a file conflict:
file /usr/bin/showfont from install of SDL_ttf-2.0.5-1 conflicts
with file from package kbd-1.06-21
D’oh! I’ve seen “showfont” elsewhere. (I have one on my Debian box,
which is NOT the SDL_ttf one; it’s an Xlib app.)
LIM on IRC suggested some “–excludepath” option to “rpm,” which I’ll suggest
to the poor fellow trying to install all of this. In the meantime, though,
should this be dealt with at the SDL_ttf RPM end of things? (Like, don’t
include it, or name it something different?)
-bill!
(beginning to dislike Unix filesystems ;^) )
Bill Kendrick wrote:
A fellow was trying to install Tux Paint and when he went to install
SDL_ttf on his Red Hat box (he grabbed the RPM off of www.libsdl.org)
and tried to install it, he got an error about a file conflict:
file /usr/bin/showfont from install of SDL_ttf-2.0.5-1 conflicts
with file from package kbd-1.06-21
D’oh! I’ve seen “showfont” elsewhere. (I have one on my Debian box,
which is NOT the SDL_ttf one; it’s an Xlib app.)
LIM on IRC suggested some “–excludepath” option to “rpm,” which I’ll suggest
to the poor fellow trying to install all of this. In the meantime, though,
should this be dealt with at the SDL_ttf RPM end of things? (Like, don’t
include it, or name it something different?)
-bill!
(beginning to dislike Unix filesystems ;^) )
perhaps rename it to sdlttfshowfont or something else using the sdlttf name…–
-==-
Jon Atkins
http://jonatkins.org/
A fellow was trying to install Tux Paint and when he went to install
SDL_ttf on his Red Hat box (he grabbed the RPM off of www.libsdl.org)
and tried to install it, he got an error about a file conflict:
file /usr/bin/showfont from install of SDL_ttf-2.0.5-1 conflicts
with file from package kbd-1.06-21
D’oh! I’ve seen “showfont” elsewhere. (I have one on my Debian box,
which is NOT the SDL_ttf one; it’s an Xlib app.)
LIM on IRC suggested some “–excludepath” option to “rpm,” which I’ll suggest
to the poor fellow trying to install all of this. In the meantime, though,
should this be dealt with at the SDL_ttf RPM end of things? (Like, don’t
include it, or name it something different?)
Yeah, the SDL_ttf2 CVS module doesn’t install it anymore.
Releasing this is on my TODO list. 
See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment