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From: Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly_kushneriuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] libgd & freetype
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 01:25:20
Message-Id: 1008746747.11553.0.camel@uranus.u235.eyep.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] libgd & freetype by Mikael Hallendal
1 On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 15:20, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
2 > It is not a different package, just a newer version of a package which
3 > happends to be incompatible with the previous version.
4 >
5 > The reason they are installing in /usr/include/freetype and
6 > /usr/include/freetype2 is because the user should be able to have them
7 > both installed at the same time.
8 >
9 > This should be fixed by having dependencies like
10 > freetype >= 1.3, < 2.0 (or whatever syntax we came up with). I'm not
11 > sure of the current status of that.
12 The why do we have libxml AND libxml2?
13 And this only one of the many examples.
14 As I said, incompatible version of library usualy made a separate
15 package.
16 So I think freetype-2 should be made freetype2-2
17
18 TIA