Re: [gentoo-dev] LibPNG Problems :(

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli@hotmail.com>]

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 <mkennedy@gentoo.org>
>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


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