On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:03:53PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:02:22AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Q: Why don't we just say goodbye to binary-compatibility with other > > distros on those few corner cases ? > > A: I'm not against that, but some people in the project seem to be. > > Anyway, this is certainly not a move we can make without thinking. > As far as I could tell the last time I looked at RedHat they have > already switched to using libpng12 for most things. For example imlib, > I haven't looked at their gnome but with imlib using libpng12 it would > seem it would have to be using libpng12 as well. So unless I am mistaken > we are only maintaining binary-compatibility with old versions of Debian > not other distributions (or at least not RedHat). Wrong. It was Red Hat who *instigated* the change in library names upstream to allow the devel packages to be installed simultaneously, because they have no intention of trying to recompile GNOME 1 against a different libpng. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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