On 30/11/2021 14:18, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 8:27 AM Arve Barsnes<[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 14:20, John Covici<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi. So, on my latest attempt at a world update today, I am getting a
crazy problem with libpng, with some packages insisting on the use
flag -apng (portage made me put it in), but other packages insisting
on the use flag apng.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
That is a direct conflict between chromium and firefox/thunderbird.
You can avoid it by removing the system-png flag from chromium.
That issue will probably never hit stable, and I would make a note to
revisit it in a few weeks. The next Council agenda includes resolving
the conflict, though that isn't a guarantee it will happen. Once the
change is settled you'll probably want to revert all your USE flag
changes to the new defaults unless you have a strong personal
preference.
I know we're encouraged to use a directory for package.use nowadays, and
this is a perfect example why.
Create a file called "chromium" or "firefox" (whicever makes most sense
to you), and put all the assorted flags you need to fix the issue in there.
So when you decide you want to revert all those changes, you can just
delete that file, and bingo ...
Or just make all those changes dependent on the current version of
chromium/firefox. So when you update you may have to re-visit the
problem, or it may just solve itself.
Cheers,
Wol
