From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/freetype: freetype-2.4.11-r1.ebuild ChangeLog
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 11:55:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130302115512.10c1eedb@portable> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <512E76B9.2050201@gentoo.org>
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:12:25 +0100
Thomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Pacho Ramos schrieb:
> > El mié, 27-02-2013 a las 19:27 +0100, Alexis Ballier escribió:
> > [...]
> >>> The reason I bring this up again is that there was a strong
> >>> argument yesterday in #gentoo-dev, so it seems the situation is
> >>> NOT clear.
> >>
> >> What are these arguments ? The IRC conspiracy is hard to follow :)
> >>
> >
> > I also read that argument... but it looked to turn more in a
> > "personal" flame war than anything "technical". For example, I
> > couldn't see how multilib-portage solves the issue of different
> > headers provided for different arches (that looks to be the key
> > problem that mgorny tried to solve in freetype)
> >
>
> multilib-portage has no issues with abi-specific headers, since those
> are installed into a seperate abi-specific location
> inside /usr/include with a wrapper in the original location to not
> break depending packages.
yes, thats the kind of solution that should be implemented for
freetype too. putting all headers under /usr/lib doesnt seem sane.
There exist default locations for headers for a reason, leveraging the
issue to using pkg-config seems wrong.
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2013-02-27 17:10 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/freetype: freetype-2.4.11-r1.ebuild ChangeLog hasufell
2013-02-27 17:58 ` Alexis Ballier
2013-02-27 18:14 ` hasufell
2013-02-27 18:27 ` Alexis Ballier
2013-02-27 19:05 ` hasufell
2013-02-27 19:09 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-03-02 11:08 ` Alexis Ballier
2013-03-02 15:01 ` hasufell
2013-02-27 20:25 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-02-27 21:12 ` Thomas Sachau
2013-03-02 10:55 ` Alexis Ballier [this message]
2013-02-27 20:30 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-02-27 21:08 ` Thomas Sachau
2013-02-27 21:18 ` Michał Górny
2013-03-02 10:53 ` Alexis Ballier
2013-02-27 18:15 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-27 20:20 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-02-27 20:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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