Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 19:39:24
Message-Id: CAHcsgXQxqKNMDoULjMqjmqZPk2QRSGusGf7D+GN7g0u_RKbzzQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status by Rich Freeman
1 On 5 April 2015 at 19:59, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > It seems unlikely that this would make much of a difference. I think
3 > that allowing this package to create another ffmpeg vs libav mess is a
4 > mistake.
5
6 To be honest, the upstream developers should be fairly in the known
7 regarding my opinion expressed in the blog posts, as they replied and
8 read them before.
9
10 We could also find other ways to deal with this by installing the
11 packages as different library names and subverting pkg-config to
12 choose between the two, but that would only work for packages using
13 pkg-config to begin with and does not solve the transitive
14 dependencies problem.
15
16 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
17 https://blog.flameeyes.eu/