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* Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve  circular deps
  @ 2010-04-07 23:31 99%         ` Nirbheek Chauhan
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From: Nirbheek Chauhan @ 2010-04-07 23:31 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

Why are you replying to a thread that has already been resolved? Please stop.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> * Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> schrieb:
>
>> If it turns out there is no easier way of properly fixing this,
>> we may have to split poppler-utils out from poppler.
>
> ACK. Having separate packages for public libraries and utils
> which just happen to use these libs should be the default case.
> Not just because of circular deps - which, in 99.99% have
> absolutely _no_ technical reason, beside certain people's mental
> lazyness (at least that's what my about 20yrs swe experience
> shows up ;-o) - but also a matter of clean sw design.
>
> This should start at the source, so if upstream doesnt want to
> fix this, let's fork. (i'm hereby volunteering as maintainer).
>
>
> cu
>
> PS: please no "we're not debian"-flamewars ;-o
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-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team



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2010-03-05 20:51     ` Maciej Mrozowski
2010-03-05 21:06       ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-06  9:17         ` Nirbheek Chauhan
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