Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 23:43:14 +0300 From: Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org> Cc: Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net>, 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: <200207082343.14761@zappa.athame.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020708130422.46234G-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020708130422.46234G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Monday 08 July 2002 20:06, Robert Watson wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Lauri Watts wrote: > > The only application we've managed to come up with that actually > > uses it today is Gimp (however, the gimp-devel port also uses it.) > > Ok, my suggestion of renaming the KDE mpeg lib was based on the > assumption that other software relied on the mpeg-lib in ports, and > that it was "the" mpeg lib. If that's not the case, then I withdraw > the suggestion. However, it does open up another question: what do > other systems link gimp1 against? > > If gimp1 *really* needs that specifc mpeg library, and it's the only > software that does, the temptation would be to build it as part of > the gimp build, and statically link it into gimp, solving the problem > :-). I did a thorough check of the ports tree, and the only ports that use graphics/mpeg-lib are graphics/gimp1 and graphics/gimp-devel It would appear (I've not checked completely) that it would be relatively straightforward to patch all three ports to avoid this naming conflict. As for other systems, at least the Ximian gimp packages for RedHat do not appear to use this plugin/library. In fact, from my tests here with gimp (on FreeBSD, with no library conflicts), the plugin actually _fails_ to load about 95% of the MPEG files I have, which leads me to think that it's pretty much a waste of time worrying about it. Of course, other people will have a different opinion on that. A. -- Andy Fawcett | "In an open world without walls and fences, andy@athame.co.uk | we wouldn't need Windows and Gates." tap@lspace.org | -- anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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