On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:14 PM, <fe...@crowfix.com> wrote: > Gentoo updates refuse to install both versions 6 and 7 of jpeg, > and I have found that certain applications, like emacs, refuse > to remerge with -7 so I have been refusing the -7 update for a > month or two now. Every once in a while, one slips by me, > usually because I forget to remove thunderbird from the list of > updates, and I find out when emacs won't run. If I try to build > emacs with -7, it complains, so I remerge jpeg-6 and then emacs > is happy again. I do not understand the compat lib; it also blocks, > and since I can just refuse the -7 update and keep on working, I > have not looked into it much, figuring that sooner or later emacs > and other packages will be upgraded to handle jpeg-7.
jpegcompat-6b replaces jpeg-6b IF you have jpeg-7 also installed. Any packages that depend on jpeg-6b should compile with jpegcompat-6b also.
