Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:01:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> 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] kdemultimedia stomps on graphics/mpeg-lib's .so files Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020708100032.41026G-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020707011816.GA73385@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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Sounds like the KDE people should probably just rename their library to kdejpeg. :-) Surely this pops up for people on other platforms too? How is it resolved in Linux? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Alan E wrote: > Or the other way around depending on installation order. > > Both ports lay claim to /usr/local/lib/libmpeg.so. Now, this wouldn't be > so bad except they aren't the *same* libmpeg.so. > > Gimp requires the libmpeg.so from mpeg-lib. So, the side effect of this > is that Gimp can't build a plugin it wants to, and the packaging of Gimp > then fails due to missing files. > > I'm not sure yet what a good solution is, but clearly it'll have to > involve changing kdemultimedia3, as mpeg-lib can easily claim seniority. > > I wonder if we can move kdemultimedia's libmpeg.so to > /usr/local/lib/kde3, and have things still work... > > I'd like to ignore this and say 'who cares' as much as anyone who > doesn't really use Gnome for anything, but Gimp is an important > (prominent and widely used) application and we have inadvertantly broken > it. There may be other apps which also use mpeg-lib; I haven't grepped > for it, yet. > > Comments, suggestions, whatever you got, please. > > -- > AlanE > _______________________________________________ > kde-freebsd mailing list > kde-freebsd@lists.csociety.org > http://lists.csociety.org/listinfo/kde-freebsd > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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