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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:18:27
Message-Id: 20100407231319.GC16593@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps by Nirbheek Chauhan
1 * Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> schrieb:
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3 > If it turns out there is no easier way of properly fixing this,
4 > we may have to split poppler-utils out from poppler.
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6 ACK. Having separate packages for public libraries and utils
7 which just happen to use these libs should be the default case.
8 Not just because of circular deps - which, in 99.99% have
9 absolutely _no_ technical reason, beside certain people's mental
10 lazyness (at least that's what my about 20yrs swe experience
11 shows up ;-o) - but also a matter of clean sw design.
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13 This should start at the source, so if upstream doesnt want to
14 fix this, let's fork. (i'm hereby volunteering as maintainer).
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17 cu
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19 PS: please no "we're not debian"-flamewars ;-o
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22 Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/
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24 Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
25 http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce
26 Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
27 http://patches.metux.de/
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