From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OUr4o-0005Ws-T5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:59:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14A30E0654; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 00:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aplus.dartworks.biz (aplus.dartworks.biz [206.225.82.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73E0E0654 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 00:58:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dartworks.biz (adsl-75-36-233-90.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [::ffff:75.36.233.90]) (AUTH: CRAM-MD5 mercury) by aplus.dartworks.biz with esmtp; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:58:56 -0700 id 00420001.4C2E8B50.00000A8D Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:58:54 -0700 From: Keith Dart To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: rdalek1967@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Safe to install libpng-1.2.44? Message-ID: <20100702175854.400b5f8a@dartworks.biz> In-Reply-To: <4C2E6CFA.8040505@gmail.com> References: <87oceqe3tx.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <20100702150130.560cac40@dartworks.biz> <4C2E6CFA.8040505@gmail.com> Organization: Dartworks X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 763de0aa-9f57-42bb-bd73-b2f0d66c5fce X-Archives-Hash: 5ea5912e1b3918b03ccaf9b3e3cf7acb === On Fri, 07/02, Dale wrote: === > This appears to be the opposite of a upgrade. He has a package that > wants the OLD slotted version of libpng not the NEW slotted version. > If I understand that correctly, he has already done the upgrade but > now something needs the old package installed in addition to the new > one. === Oh right, sorry, didn't look closely enough. I would recommend avoiding that until Opera is upgraded. I did have for a while both 1.2 and 1.4 slots installed and some things got dynamically linked with both of them. That caused me some problems. Overall, libpng12 to libpng14 was a real pain... But now that's over with. -- Keith Dart -- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keith Dart public key: ID: 19017044 =====================================================================