On 12/04/2016 22:31, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 10:18:50 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 12/04/2016 22:01, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:31:28 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>>>> I have ksnapshot in @world, so depclean didn't touch it.  It
>>>>> still works fine.  Spectacle and ksnapshot block each other, but if
>>>>> you unmerge spectacle you may be able to get a working ksnapshot
>>>>> back, at least for now.
>>>>
>>>> I know, had to copy a meta-ebuild ( kdegraphics-meta ) into my local
>>>> overlay and modify it to pick ksnapshot though. As the later version
>>>> only allows Spectacle.
>>>
>>> I don't use the meta packages, preferring to define my own set with the
>>> packages I want, so I wasn't aware of Spectacle. I've just tried it an is
>>> seems to do much the same as ksnapshot, just with a lot more white space
>>> in the UI - but WTF do they block one another, they're only screen shot
>>> programs?
>>
>> There doesn't seem to be a good technical reason, maybe it's as simple
>> as the maintainer thought there shouldn't be two competing apps with the
>> same functionality?
>>
>> I unblocked them here, and re-emerged both. Nothing extra was pulled in,
>> so there are no conflicting libs.
>>
>> Unfortunately I can't attach a screenshot as proof - both remove their
>> own window to do the capture :-)
> 
> Find a 3rd one to do it with.
> Or take a picture with a mobile phone? :)

I considered that, then I remembered that I'm a lazy sod, so I didn't!


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