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[Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:28 AM, David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org> wrote:
> What were the reasons against it? If it broke significant amounts of
> things, then that'd be a good reason. If it only broke one or two
> things, but they're extremely popular, that'd also be a good reason,
> otherwise, I'm not sure it's a good enough reason.
>

AFAIK, the only reason against pulling devel-libpng is that it
requires recasting of any spell that requires libpng, which is a
significant amount of spells. Though I'm not sure how that is an issue
since this is a source-based distro. I'm running libpng branch 1.5 on
my main box (newer than the version in devel-libpng) and almost every
spell in test works perfectly for me. Only a handful of spells I have
encountered require patches (I haven't pushed them to devel-libpng
because they are pretty much libpng 1.5 specific and I don't use
devel-libpng).

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Ladislav Hagara
<ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz> wrote:
> I know we have problem with libpthread-stubs, UP_TRIGGERS doesn't fix
> all spells, some spells have to be re-cast manually or some of us has to
> update UP_TRIGGERS. We also discussed to run manually some script to
> remove *.la files from /usr/lib. Problem is, who fix his xorg-problem
> doesn't care updating UP_TRIGGERS.

Hmm, I seem to have inadvertently switched to the xorg version in
test. I just switched back to the devel-xorg version and have
definitely broke something related to libpthreads-stubs. I'll look
into it and try to report back.

On a semi-related note, why did we revert glibc to 2.13 instead of
applying patches to re-enable the RPC interface?