[arch-general] library version conflict -- how does Arch solve this ?

[Ionut Biru]

On 02/08/2010 03:21 AM, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Today I installed Latex (texlive). Doing this installed
> new versions of libpng and libjpeg, and this broke emacs,
> xv and gnuplot (and maybe others I haven't discovered yet).
>
> I was able to make xv work again by removing and re-installing
> it. This didn't help for emacs, but adding a symbolic link in
> /usr/lib (to the wrong library !!!) made it work again.
> But I've been unable to get gnuplot working again, and
> this is one of my most essential tools.
>
> So what's the Arch way to solve this ?

pacman -Qs cairo

if is different than cairo then is your job to rebuild it against new 
libpng.



-- 
Ionut