Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3
"Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:23:25PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > >> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <steven.robbins@videotron.ca> writes:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:09:08PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > >> I really want to know why recompiling gdk-imlib1 is too hard ?
> >
> > > Recompiling isn't hard. Managing the transition is hard. Did you
> > > read the threads in debian-devel and debian-kde? Do you have a solution
> > > to managing the transition?
> >
> > Yes I've read the thread in -devel. For Gnome we only need to recompile
> > your package and dgk-pixbuf.
>
> You think only two packages need recompiling? I can only conclude
> that, while you may have read the thread, you did not understand it.
phil@ceramic% egrep '^Depends:.*libpng' /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l
377
phil@ceramic% egrep '^Depends:.*gdk-imlib1' /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l
254
phil@ceramic% egrep '^Depends:.*gdk-imlib1' /var/lib/dpkg/available |egrep '^Depends:.*libpng' | wc -l
24
It would be at most 24 packages.
> The best summary (in my humble opinion) is
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200201/msg00243.html
>
> The main conclusion is this: if imlib1 (and gdk-imlib1) change their linkage
> from libpng2 to libpng3, then ANY APPLICATION THAT LINKS WITH ONE OF THOSE
> AND ALSO WITH LIBPNG NEEDS TO BE RECOMPILED. That's a whole lot more than
> two packages.
24 at most.
8< snip >8
> P.S. Just for the record: what specifically are the benefits to
> recompiling everything with libpng3?
What are the benefits of recompiling eveything with libc6? ;-)
Phil.
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