On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 12:56, Glanz wrote: > Gimp and no more images in help > > I must respectfully disagree with your rather flippant statement that "the > problem will just go away".. > That wasn't what was said:
Quoting MC: "This is a problem everybody was having for a while. It is generally believed that it goes away once you recompile the latest versions of libpng, libpng3, imlib, and in your case, gimp." Meaning: "the problem is known, and a solution exists."--The "generally believed" indicates that there may be exceptions. > Believe me, I know you are occupied with other problems, but if you do not > fix this one, Fink will become unuseable. I can see it comming. > Fixes have been posted: new versions of packages have been issued to address just this problem. Moreover, unless things have changed, this is only an issue for the unstable tree in any case: binary users and stable source users are unaffected. > This is a recurring problem, and not at all "normal" as you stated. I am > working on this right now and will post a (hopefully) solution soon. > This is a completely separate issue: MG>I should say that from time to time, fink selfupdate cvs leads to MG>uninstall libpng3 in favor of libpng and the other way around. No MGidea why. MC>This is normal behavior, part of the "shlibs policy". What MG and MC are referring to here is that some packages that are required to build other packages, but not to run them, get swapped in and out on a regular basis. This happens with many different libraries, not just libpng. > Don't just ignore it. Work on it. [I guess that's why I subscribed] ( > advice to myself)... :) > > Znalg > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
