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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:39:32
Message-Id: 1297564649.2150.37.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade by Mike Frysinger
1 Il giorno sab, 12/02/2011 alle 18.21 -0500, Mike Frysinger ha scritto:
2 > patching packages in the tree is a huge hassle,
3 > you add hassle to end users who d/l random packages and try to build
4 > things
5 > themselves, and you make Gentoo non-standard wrt every other distro
6 > out there.
7
8 What I had in mind was something that would work for upstreams as well,
9 mostly by having fallback; so if a package supported up to libpng 1.4 it
10 would search for -lpng14, then -lpng12, then -lpng (and in Gentoo would
11 hit -lpng14); while one supporting 1.5 as well would go -lpng15 -lpng14
12 -lpng12 -lpng ...
13
14 i.e. what most already do for berkdb but at some point with us not
15 providing -lpng at all, if most upstreams would like that idea.
16
17 But it's still a bit hairy at the moment, I admit it might just not fly.
18
19 --
20 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
21 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>