On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:53:26PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:42:26PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > One solution could be to downgrade the libgtkxmhtml-dev dependency to a > > suggest, which would enable people to install lablgtk without > > linbpng2-dev, which is suggested in this bug report. Apparently, only > > This is not the right solution: that dependency is a real dependency, a > user that install lablgtk doesn't expect compilation failure with > messages reported by the linker saying he isn't able to find -lgtkxmthml > library.
Ok, let's set up a ring or something and have you and Aaron fight it out, and i will go with the winners solution :))) > > o bug the libpng maintainer so that he produce parallel installable > > libpng2-dev and libpng12-0-dev. > > Impossibile, I guess that that conflics is desired. Well, do you have definite information on this ? > > o bug the libgtkxmhtml-dev so that he provides a libpng12-0-dev > > version. I wouldn't recomend this one, like said, gtk1.2 and gnome 1 > > stuff should be built with libpng2. > > This is worth considering. But it may cause other problems, no, since the libgnome 1.x are built with libpng2, we would need a full rebuild of all the gnome stuff, which is not worth it. > > o rebuild all lablgtk using apps with lablgtk2, and especially > > cameleon. > > This is both the hard(TM) and the right(TM) way. :))) Friendly, Sven Luther
