I'm installing a 3rd party binary on my system (odesk team) from here: http://www.odesk.com/community/linux
I remember last time I just picked the latest 64bit fedora version, extracted their stuff, and placed it somewhere in opt. Recently though, the app has been giving me some trouble, so I checked if there was a later version and I was 3 minor revisions behind. Whoops! The latest fc version depends on libpng12. I still remember that whole libpng12 recompile nightmare a couple months back that forced me to do a near equivalent of emerge -e... hundreds of compiles, circular fails, some manual sedding, lafilefixer, revdeps, and all that gentoo fun later and I've gotten me to a pure libpng14 system in about a week. whoopee! I'll probably try the arch version instead, but I'm curious now. If ever I should install libpng12 (slotted to 1.2), what happens on my next emerge? Configure will use a libpng version to use for compiles, but which one will it use? Will my system still be mostly on libpng14 or is there a chance that some recompiles go back to libpng12? Havng spent so much energy getting it one way I'd rather not have it reversed. -- This email is: [ ] actionable [ ] fyi [ ] social Response needed: [ ] yes [ ] up to you [ ] no Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [ ] none
