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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking of libxcb 1.4 and related libs in !2008.0 profiles
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:43:06
Message-Id: 4A8BE547.80400@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking of libxcb 1.4 and related libs in !2008.0 profiles by Paul de Vrieze
1 Paul de Vrieze a écrit :
2 > As a service to users, you might want to create an empty library:
3 >
4 > touch foo.c
5 > gcc -shared foo.c -o libxcb-x11.so.0.0.0
6 >
7 > That's all
8
9 Like Samuli said, it's a hack and doing that would be wrong. I will not
10 trade short-term peace of mind for a long term hell for whoever will be
11 maintaining X after me.
12
13 Just like the expat soname change, we have to remove the band-aids at
14 some point, even if it hurts.
15
16 Rémi