From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from smtp-1.attica.net.nz (pop3-1.tranzpeer.net [202.180.66.199]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CCD4AC717 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:07:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 52419 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2002 00:07:08 -0000 Received: from 202-180-68-145.nas1.wlg.attica.net.nz (HELO BMF) (202.180.68.145) by pop3-1.tranzpeer.net with SMTP; 18 Apr 2002 00:07:08 -0000 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:09:34 +1200 From: Milos Negovanovic To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LibPNG Problems :( Message-Id: <20020418120934.0cd004af.milosn@slingshot.co.nz> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 7e42a697-a816-4c91-bda0-59cc4c3e9a39 X-Archives-Hash: ec0c65c51ca8f398b435b07c208f6d05 On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:08:10 +0000 "Eugenia Loli-Queru" wrote: > Sorry, this solution is NOT acceptable. This pretty much says that I > have rebuild most of my graphics apps, and possibly X (which I > recompiled it just yesterday anyway during my upgrade to 1.1a). This > is just WAY too time consuming, and, simply put, it doesn't worth the > trouble. I would expect Gentoo LLC to find a better solutions for its > users, especially if this error was not a user error, but the > maintener's. Asking poor cpu cycle users to recompile everything, it > is just not so good, don't you think? > > WHY this "dll hell" had happened anyway? Is there not another, easier > way to fix this, by downloading a new libpng or something else? It > seems that _a lot_ of people just got on the same problem, if I judge > from the number of emails regarding the new libpng problems that > breaks compatibility. > > So, who's problem that is? The person who did the ebuilds? the person > who did other depended ebuilds? libpng's? Mine for want to run Linux > and in fact ran into dll hell? :( > > /me goes back to Windows, MacOSX and BeOS. The Free/Open software is > not there yet for the end user (forget the fact that I am actually a > developer - Linux is only free if you have a lot of free time to spare > - I don't). > > Thank you all for the answers so far, in the last 2 weeks. I really > appreciated your help. Please do not see the above as whining, these > are just my honest thoughts about the free software as a whole today > (I mean, when you put all these individual projects to work together > under the umbrella of an OS - any OS). Not very well co-ordinated. :( > > Regards, > Eugenia > > > >Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LibPNG Problems :( > >From: Matthew Kennedy > >To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > >Date: 17 Apr 2002 03:04:43 -0500 > >Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > > > >Howdy, > > > >On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 02:20, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote: > > > http://www.eugenia.co.uk/snapshot1.png > > > You are seeing Konqueror with no icons, the actual error messages > > > on the right hand side, and also my libpngs on the terminal above, > > > as they live on > > > /usr/lib. > > > >This problem and it's solution was discussed a few times on the > >gentoo-user list a while back. Hope the URLs to them help. > > > >http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-user/2002-April/019211.html > >http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-user/2002-April/020543.html > >http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-user/2002-April/020182.html > > > >Matt > > > >-- > >Matthew Kennedy > >Gentoo Linux Developer > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev > Hello, i must say that instructions for updating libpng worked smoothly (for me that is). Also majority of complaints posted here come from KDE people and are related to simple fact that they have to recompile bigger part fo their systems and that they dont like it ( hehe i wouldnt either :) ). Milos (i am not gentoo developer, just casual visitor)