Re: [gentoo-dev] libgd & freetype

[Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly_kushneriuk@yahoo.com>]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 15:20, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> ons 2001-12-12 klockan 17.27 skrev Vitaly Kushneriuk:
> > libgd-1.8.3-r2 needs freetype-1.3.1 and will not compile with
> > freetype-2.0.5
> > they use different directories and install different libraries:
> >         /usr/include/freetype  /usr/include/freetype2/freetype
> >         /usr/lib/libttf.*      /usr/lib/libfreetype.*
> > IMHO freetype-2.0.5 should be called freetype2-2.0.5, as this is a 
> > different package
> 
> It is not a different package, just a newer version of a package which
> happends to be incompatible with the previous version.
> 
> The reason they are installing in /usr/include/freetype and
> /usr/include/freetype2 is because the user should be able to have them
> both installed at the same time.
By the same reason, it should be named freetype-1... and freetype2-2....
So that freetype-1 will not be unmerged when installing freetype-2,
when/if, we add auto-unmerge option to oprtage, etc. or interfere in
some other way.
Adding lib main version to the package name is the standard way of
dealing with incompatible lib version, so that they can be
installed/removed separately.

> 
> This should be fixed by having dependencies like 
> freetype >= 1.3, < 2.0 (or whatever syntax we came up with). I'm not
> sure of the current status of that.
> 
> Regards,
>   Mikael Hallendal
>  
> -- 
> 
> Mikael Hallendal
> Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
> CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden
>