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Re: lablgtk's dependency on gtkxmhtml



On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:42:26PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> One solution could be to downgrade the libgtkxmhtml-dev dependency to a
> suggest, which would enable people to install lablgtk without
> linbpng2-dev, which is suggested in this bug report. Apparently, only

This is not the right solution: that dependency is a real dependency, a
user that install lablgtk doesn't expect compilation failure with
messages reported by the linker saying he isn't able to find -lgtkxmthml
library.

>   o bug the libpng maintainer so that he produce parallel installable
>   libpng2-dev and libpng12-0-dev.

Impossibile, I guess that that conflics is desired.

>   o bug the libgtkxmhtml-dev so that he provides a libpng12-0-dev
>   version. I wouldn't recomend this one, like said, gtk1.2 and gnome 1
>   stuff should be built with libpng2.

This is worth considering.

>   o rebuild all lablgtk using apps with lablgtk2, and especially
>   cameleon.

This is both the hard(TM) and the right(TM) way.

Cheers.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli  -  Undergraduate Student of CS @ Uni. Bologna, Italy
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