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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:27:54
Message-Id: 20110226161102.GJ22774@nibiru.local
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 * Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××.com> schrieb:
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3 > What I had in mind was something that would work for upstreams as well,
4 > mostly by having fallback; so if a package supported up to libpng 1.4 it
5 > would search for -lpng14, then -lpng12, then -lpng (and in Gentoo would
6 > hit -lpng14); while one supporting 1.5 as well would go -lpng15 -lpng14
7 > -lpng12 -lpng ...
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9 In case of multiple versions are installed, that would make the
10 dependency tracking unstable - the package management doesn't
11 know which version had been chosen.
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