Re: [gentoo-amd64] Libjpeg-Turbo Drops Newer ABIs

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote:
>>>> Libjpeg-turbo has been the default jpeg image processor on Gentoo
>>>> for some time now.
>>>
>>> Really? I don't have it on any of my systems here and I run (mostly) stable.
>>>
>>> What pulls it in?
>>
>> virtual/jpeg pulls media-libs/libjpeg-turbo before media-libs/jpeg.
>>
>
> To clear up the possible confusion - when the default for a virtual is
> changed users who already have the virtual satisfied will not be
> prompted to switch packages (and rebuild half their system in the
> process).  So, if you already have jpeg installed nothing will pull in
> libjpeg-turbo.
>
> If you want to switch you'll have to do it manually.  I seem to recall
> some discussion back when things were changed - not sure if there was
> a news item.
>
> Rich
>
Thanks Rich. That's what I guessed in my response to Canek.

It's an interesting point though. Frank stated it's the 'default', but
I guess it's really only the default for new installs. Seems like this
is possibly a job for some eselect processor?

Anyway, glad at this point I don't have it currently installed but it
sounds like I probably should switch one of these days.

Cheers,
Mark