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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 09:16:13 +0300
From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/ImageMagick Makefile
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Ade Lovett wrote:

> ade         2000/08/01 18:52:41 PDT
>
>   Modified files:
>     graphics/ImageMagick Makefile
>   Log:
>   Do not try to use XML support since:
>         (a)  ImageMagick needs libxml2, not libxml
>         (b)  libxml2 does not co-exist AT ALL with libxml
>         (c)  libxml is a required component of GNOME
>         (d)  the extra functionality for ImageMagick is minimal
>
>   Thus, if you installed GNOME, and then this port, or vice-versa
>   Really Bad[tm] things will happen.
>
>   As and when libxml2 is used by GNOME (and libxml is buried
>   with partial military honors), then it will be possible to
>   turn this support back on.
>
>   Discovered by:        my crashbox going nuts after an install of GNOME
>                 and then ImageMagick.  There were no survivors :)

Isn't the more appropriate solution will be to modify libxml2 to append '2' to
all installed bits (like gtk, sdl etc.), so it will be possible to have both
libxml and libxml2 installed on the same machine?

-Maxim



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