[oe] RFC: get rid of virtual/libsdl

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl
Mon Jan 8 22:17:04 UTC 2007


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Paul Sokolovsky schreef:
> Hello Koen,
> 
> 
>> Marcin Juszkiewicz schreef:
>>> I see more and more reports where people has problems with building SDL 
>>> stuff just because they have 'virtual/libsdl == libsdl-qpe' in build 
> 
> []
> 
>> move libsql-qpe to packages/obsolete/libsdl/, that way people that want it can still build
>> it and innocent bystanders don't get hit by the issues you mentioned.
> 
>   Isn't that too much of action for the original problem of people
> selecting it to build SDL apps and having problems due to this?

People have to select libsdl-x11, otherwise -qpe gets built. Given its current
unmaintained and problematic state it'd rather drop it completely. But since we are
supposed to by nice to OE users, lets move it to obsolete instead.

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