Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Eugenia Loli-Queru <eloli@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LibPNG Problems :(
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:08:11
Message-Id: F127AeRaNgEpTX5V3Gy0000ce65@hotmail.com
1 Sorry, this solution is NOT acceptable. This pretty much says that I have
2 rebuild most of my graphics apps, and possibly X (which I recompiled it just
3 yesterday anyway during my upgrade to 1.1a). This is just WAY too time
4 consuming, and, simply put, it doesn't worth the trouble. I would expect
5 Gentoo LLC to find a better solutions for its users, especially if this
6 error was not a user error, but the maintener's. Asking poor cpu cycle users
7 to recompile everything, it is just not so good, don't you think?
8
9 WHY this "dll hell" had happened anyway? Is there not another, easier way to
10 fix this, by downloading a new libpng or something else? It seems that _a
11 lot_ of people just got on the same problem, if I judge from the number of
12 emails regarding the new libpng problems that breaks compatibility.
13
14 So, who's problem that is? The person who did the ebuilds? the person who
15 did other depended ebuilds? libpng's? Mine for want to run Linux and in fact
16 ran into dll hell? :(
17
18 /me goes back to Windows, MacOSX and BeOS. The Free/Open software is not
19 there yet for the end user (forget the fact that I am actually a developer -
20 Linux is only free if you have a lot of free time to spare - I don't).
21
22 Thank you all for the answers so far, in the last 2 weeks. I really
23 appreciated your help. Please do not see the above as whining, these are
24 just my honest thoughts about the free software as a whole today (I mean,
25 when you put all these individual projects to work together under the
26 umbrella of an OS - any OS). Not very well co-ordinated. :(
27
28 Regards,
29 Eugenia
30
31
32 >Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LibPNG Problems :(
33 >From: Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@g.o>
34 >To: gentoo-dev@g.o
35 >Date: 17 Apr 2002 03:04:43 -0500
36 >Reply-To: gentoo-dev@g.o
37 >
38 >Howdy,
39 >
40 >On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 02:20, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
41 > > http://www.eugenia.co.uk/snapshot1.png
42 > > You are seeing Konqueror with no icons, the actual error messages on the
43 > > right hand side, and also my libpngs on the terminal above, as they live
44 >on
45 > > /usr/lib.
46 >
47 >This problem and it's solution was discussed a few times on the
48 >gentoo-user list a while back. Hope the URLs to them help.
49 >
50 >http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-user/2002-April/019211.html
51 >http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-user/2002-April/020543.html
52 >http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-user/2002-April/020182.html
53 >
54 >Matt
55 >
56 >--
57 >Matthew Kennedy
58 >Gentoo Linux Developer
59
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] LibPNG Problems :( Spider <spider@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] LibPNG Problems :( Milos Negovanovic <milosn@××××××××××××.nz>
Re: [gentoo-dev] LibPNG Problems :( Kevin Hayes <kjhaze@×××××.com>