On Monday 10 May 2010 20:22:28 Peng Hsin-shun wrote: > Mask it. It's too new to adapt. > > 2010/5/11 Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org> > > > Hello guys, > > > > as I'm sure some of you already experimented, the libpng upgrade didn't > > exactly went smoothly on my chroots. Reason seems to be that libpng > > usage is odd, it provides both libpng14.* and libpng.* files. Some > > packages likes to use versioned libs while some other don't and it seems > > to lead to giant mess in *.la files (for example). > > > > My question are: > > * is there a draft news item as a simple revdep-rebuild or portage > > > > preserved-libs feature doesn't cut it (for good reasons) that I could > > test ? > > > > * what is the recommended way to link to libpng (versioned lib or not) > > * corollary to previous question, should we enforce link to versioned > > > > lib only ? > > > > -- > > Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org> > > Gentoo Masking it is not an option anymore since the majority of ~arch systems are already using libpng-1.4. If you mask it you will create a confusion and you will have to rebuild the same packages again.
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