Re: [gentoo-dev] libgd & freetype

[Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly_kushneriuk@yahoo.com>]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 15:20, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.
The why do we have libxml AND libxml2?
And this only one of the many examples.
As I said, incompatible version of library usualy made a separate
package.
So I think freetype-2 should be made freetype2-2

TIA