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Date:      06 Jul 2002 21:49:42 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net>
Cc:        KDE FreeBSD List <kde-freebsd@lists.csociety.org>, FreeBSD Ports List <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: kdemultimedia stomps on graphics/mpeg-lib's .so files
Message-ID:  <1026006582.369.62.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020707013557.GA98982@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
References:  <20020707011816.GA73385@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <1026005406.369.58.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>  <20020707013557.GA98982@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>

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On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 21:35, Alan E wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 09:30:06PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 21:18, Alan E wrote:
> 
> >Something that has been done in the past is to rename the offending
> >library, then patch the dependents to use the name name (e.g. libiconv
> >--> libgiconv).  You could rename KDE's libmpeg to libkmpeg or
> >libkdempeg.  Just a thought.
> 
> That seems like a reasonable solution. How hard to do, I don't know,
> because other kde ports may link against it. It might be simple, and and
> it might affect several other ports (<diety/> forbid it hits all the
> i18n ports, for a pathological example).

Hopefully it wouldn't be as bad as giconv.  The best case would be one
library links directly to libmpeg, then other KDE components link to
that library.

> 
> OTOH, it is used by nothing but gimp1 and gimp-devel, so we could force
> them to link it statically (which is the *right* lib). Not really much
> of a solution, though, is it?

No, since you'll have to upgrade gimp* each time you upgrade mpeg-lib.

Joe

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