Re: [gentoo-dev] giflib and libungif hell [solution: libungif is being removed]

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 17/03/2005-09:27:14(+0000): Paul Waring types
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:21:29 +0900, Chris White <chriswhite@g.o> wrote:
> > libungif is now being removed from the true to honor the better giflib
> > with expired LWZ patent.  On this friday, I will be doing the dep
> > adjustments in the tree.  I will also be creating a bug to track issues
> > with giflib not working with certain programs.  I highly doubt this
> > however, and anticipate a rather clean movement (knock on wood :|).
> > Rember: this Friday, you have been warned.  Speak now or forever hold
> > your peace :P.
>
> How will this effect non-dev users who already have libungif
> installed? Will it stay or be automatically unmerged? What about
> existing programs that use libungif? I'm only asking because I'm
> fairly sure I have quite a few things that depend on one or both
> libraries and I don't want them all to break come Friday.

I guess that libungif will disappear from your system on a depclean.
I believe that you will see no errors, as long as:

- You have upgraded all your packages that depend on one or the other,
  because the new releases will depend only on giflib. In other words,
  if libungif is not required as a dependency by anything else.
- You don't have libungif in your "world". In this case "emerge" would
  complain that "there are no ebuilds to satisfy ... " when you update
  your system.

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