Re: [gentoo-dev] giflib and libungif hell

[Chris White <chriswhite@gentoo.org>]

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Michael Marineau wrote:

>However, somethings like qt, actually depend on BOTH packages.  Does libungif
>actually provide something that giflib does not? Why is both needed?
>  
>
I don't know why qt requires both in the first place.  qt-3.3.3 (stable 
on all arches) has a _builtin_ gif reader, it just tells you about the 
LWZ patent (which.. doesn't matter because it's expired..).  If you look 
in the source tree, under src/kernel/qasyncimageio.cpp, you'll see the 
code for the builtin image reader. Therefore, it really doesn't need any 
at all that I can tell, but I'll leave the qt people to decide whether 
or not they want to keep giflib in there, but as it stands, libungif go 
bye bye.

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