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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=CTE_8BIT_MISMATCH,DMARC_NONE, FREEMAIL_FROM,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from hotmail.com (f127.law15.hotmail.com [64.4.23.127]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9155CAC383 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:08:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:08:11 -0700 Received: from 12.236.94.90 by lw15fd.law15.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:08:10 GMT X-Originating-IP: [12.236.94.90] From: "Eugenia Loli-Queru" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LibPNG Problems :( Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:08:10 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Apr 2002 22:08:11.0087 (UTC) FILETIME=[5CC4DDF0:01C1E65C] 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: 79fa52b0-f3b1-4253-ba99-402577dcaa85 X-Archives-Hash: 6e326e598bf46cc0fa2aec9fd5b41bfb 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