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Sorry, this solution is NOT acceptable. This pretty much says that I have |
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rebuild most of my graphics apps, and possibly X (which I recompiled it just |
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yesterday anyway during my upgrade to 1.1a). This is just WAY too time |
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consuming, and, simply put, it doesn't worth the trouble. I would expect |
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Gentoo LLC to find a better solutions for its users, especially if this |
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error was not a user error, but the maintener's. Asking poor cpu cycle users |
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to recompile everything, it is just not so good, don't you think? |
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WHY this "dll hell" had happened anyway? Is there not another, easier way to |
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fix this, by downloading a new libpng or something else? It seems that _a |
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lot_ of people just got on the same problem, if I judge from the number of |
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emails regarding the new libpng problems that breaks compatibility. |
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So, who's problem that is? The person who did the ebuilds? the person who |
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did other depended ebuilds? libpng's? Mine for want to run Linux and in fact |
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ran into dll hell? :( |
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/me goes back to Windows, MacOSX and BeOS. The Free/Open software is not |
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there yet for the end user (forget the fact that I am actually a developer - |
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Linux is only free if you have a lot of free time to spare - I don't). |
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Thank you all for the answers so far, in the last 2 weeks. I really |
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appreciated your help. Please do not see the above as whining, these are |
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just my honest thoughts about the free software as a whole today (I mean, |
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when you put all these individual projects to work together under the |
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umbrella of an OS - any OS). Not very well co-ordinated. :( |
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Regards, |
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Eugenia |
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>Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LibPNG Problems :( |
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>From: Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@g.o> |
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>To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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>Date: 17 Apr 2002 03:04:43 -0500 |
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>Reply-To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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> |
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>Howdy, |
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> |
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>On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 02:20, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote: |
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> > http://www.eugenia.co.uk/snapshot1.png |
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> > You are seeing Konqueror with no icons, the actual error messages on the |
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> > right hand side, and also my libpngs on the terminal above, as they live |
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>on |
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> > /usr/lib. |
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> |
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>This problem and it's solution was discussed a few times on the |
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>gentoo-user list a while back. Hope the URLs to them help. |
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> |
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>http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-user/2002-April/019211.html |
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>http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-user/2002-April/020543.html |
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>http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-user/2002-April/020182.html |
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> |
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>Matt |
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> |
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>-- |
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>Matthew Kennedy |
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>Gentoo Linux Developer |
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