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. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
