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From: George Prowse <george.prowse@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About libpng-1.4 handling
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 13:05:35
Message-Id: 4BE9560F.2090402@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About libpng-1.4 handling by Mike Frysinger
1 On 11/05/2010 04:52, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday 10 May 2010 23:10:48 Markos Chandras wrote:
3 >> provide a user friendly way to migrate to the new libpng without the need
4 >> to spend so many hours digging around on which packages to rebuild.
5 >
6 > if you're "digging around" then clearly you havent done the obvious and run
7 > revdep-rebuild ? that is pretty user-friendly.
8 >
9 > Samuli is right though ... this isnt really something that can be reverted
10 > without breaking things just as much. either help out with the problem (see
11 > the open bug report), or add yourself to the cc list and wait. harping on
12 > people only serves to annoy.
13 > -mike
14
15 I have run revdep-rebuild about 30 times and I still can't fix it.
16 revdep-rebuild does not fix it and libpng needs to have some serious
17 action before it goes stable because I booted into, basically a
18 completely broken machine because I had to stop a large upgrade on the
19 previous emerge (~300 packages) in the middle.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] About libpng-1.4 handling Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] About libpng-1.4 handling Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>