From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Safe to install libpng-1.2.44?
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:51:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2F2450.4080109@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hld9hx1.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk>
Graham Murray wrote:
> Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> 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.
>>
> As it happens the issue was moot for me, but I am sure that some people
> were caught out. I said 'No' to the 'emerge -auDvN @world' and
> waited. Later I saw a new bugzilla entry
> (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326583) about unneeded opera
> dependency on libpng. So I waited until after the fix was announced and
> in the tree and resynced, and it no longer wanted to install
> libpng-1.2.44.
>
>
That works too. Should also be better in the long run. Whew, glad that
is over. Nothing worse than having to go through a nasty upgrade just
to have to do it again later. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-03 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-02 7:32 [gentoo-user] Safe to install libpng-1.2.44? Graham Murray
2010-07-02 22:01 ` Keith Dart
2010-07-02 22:49 ` Dale
2010-07-03 0:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-07-03 12:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-07-04 19:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-07-03 0:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Keith Dart
2010-07-03 6:51 ` Graham Murray
2010-07-03 11:51 ` Dale [this message]
2010-07-05 1:38 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-07-05 2:05 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-07-06 13:14 ` Mike Edenfield
2010-07-05 2:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
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