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From: "Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re:  [gentoo-dev] LibPNG Problems :(
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 00:12:47 +0000
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>Now, could you conclude your trollish rant and show me -where- does X link 
>to libpng?

I never said that X links to it. I just said that I hope that it won't need 
to rebuilt X as well, because I did so just yesterday. I am not an X expert, 
*neither* I care what links against. I just don't want to go again through 
the pain of long compilations. I did that 2 weeks ago and did so yesterday. 
No more, thank you. I need my PC to work, not to view gcc and make working 
their butt off all day *and night* as it did for these two installations.

Problem is, I never asked for this new incompatible version of libPNG. You 
are missing the point. This new version was suddenly emerged as part of the 
(I would assume...) --update world and has messed up my whole system. I 
never asked for such a mess, I just asked for an upgrade.

If these two libs were incompatible and create such problems, they should 
not have been allowed to be part of an ebuild. If this was a full 
installation of Gentoo 1.1a, that is ok, because all of gentoo will be 
linked against a certain version of libs. But I had 1.0 and when I tried to 
udpate world, the whole thing went to hell and now I am left with half apps 
that work and half that don't (plus libGL.so does not work either now :P). 
As for that script that I need to run, it does not really fixed anything. As 
I said, rebuilding the mess that the new libpng created, is not an option.

I would expect more testing to be done before releasing all these ebuilds to 
the users or have a more intelligent portage somehow to be able to avoid dll 
hell.

As the other person very well said just an hour ago:
"Right now, installing a particular Gentoo release is like nailing jelly to 
a wall...."

I would expect a 1.0 release to be really 1.0 and to know that it works and 
that it won't put my installation in such state by emerging a game or a qt 
2.x app. I need a system that I can trust. That's all.

Thank you,
Eugenia




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