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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:39:31
Message-Id: 20110224152643.GF22774@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade by Alexis Ballier
1 * Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> schrieb:
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3 > > so why dont you ask the libpng upstream people ?
4 >
5 > ask what ?
6 > "pretty please dont install libpng.pc/.so,
7
8 Exactly that.
9
10 And it's exactly what I'm going to fix in OSS-QM when I'm adding
11 libpng-1.5 in a few days.
12
13 > pretty please force every consumer to hardcode the version
14 > because i know people that want to do this" ?
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16 No, they should use pkg-config at buildtime and do the version
17 selection there (eg. the eselect-way).
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19 > Thanks, I'm fine with having it non slotted.
20
21 And ending up with largely broken systems once again (and again,
22 and again, with coming releases) ?
23
24
25 cu
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>