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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing expat 2.0.0
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:49:32
Message-Id: 4649C2FB.6080808@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing expat 2.0.0 by Caleb Tennis
1 Caleb Tennis napsal(a):
2 >> I think the preserve_old_libs thing might just be the hack we need here.
3 >
4 > It's been brought to my attention that a bad side effect from using the
5 > preserve_old_libs method is that if an intermediary library, like qt3, gets rebuilt
6 > then you end up having both expat libraries linked against the kde libraries at the
7 > same time which causes rather undesriable crashes. Presumably this will affect
8 > GNOME in a similar fashion as well.
9
10 Exactly one of the reasons there's been no preserve_old_libs thing in
11 the ebuild in the first place.
12
13 It's been discussed with the original maintainer over and over again,
14 and the conclusion was that it's not safe to have two versions of expat
15 installed on the same system. So, why don't we just stick to that and be
16 done with it?
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19 --
20 Best regards,
21
22 Jakub Moc
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Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing expat 2.0.0 Caleb Tennis <caleb@g.o>