On Monday, February 14, 2011 10:37:27 Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Saturday, February 12, 2011 11:37:29 PM Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > Il giorno sab, 12/02/2011 alle 18.21 -0500, Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > > > patching packages in the tree is a huge hassle, > > > you add hassle to end users who d/l random packages and try to build > > > things themselves, and you make Gentoo non-standard wrt every other > > > distro out there. > > > > What I had in mind was something that would work for upstreams as well, > > mostly by having fallback; so if a package supported up to libpng 1.4 it > > would search for -lpng14, then -lpng12, then -lpng (and in Gentoo would > > hit -lpng14); while one supporting 1.5 as well would go -lpng15 -lpng14 > > -lpng12 -lpng ... > > > > i.e. what most already do for berkdb but at some point with us not > > providing -lpng at all, if most upstreams would like that idea. > > > > But it's still a bit hairy at the moment, I admit it might just not fly. > > I consider the berkdb thingy as an example of something not to do rather > than a proof of concept. > > Have you thought about doing something like what was done for wxwidgets ?
i dont think that model is appropriate either. wxwidgets maintains parallel version branches. libpng does not. > - an eselect module for out of portage builds generally if an eselect module is necessary, that says to me that something more fundamental is broken. -mike
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