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Re: [trinity-devel] libkipi, libkdcraw, and libkexiv2 dependency

From: Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:27:53 -0700 (PDT)
> Sure, I inadvertently tripped over the solution: build
> without the proprietary nvidia package installed.
> 
> The challenge is that we can't guarantee end-users
> downstream will comply. In the build scripts for those three
> packages I can insert a test for libGL.la. If found, then
> halt/pause the build with a warning message. If a person
> builds only for personal use, as I have done for the past
> many years, building packages with nvidia installed is
> harmless because that is the only person using the packages.
> Such people will never notice problems or build failures, as
> I never did.
> 
> With that said, the thread you linked is 6 years old. Thus
> the problem still exists and the problem never was
> successfully resolved as promised.
> 
> I can't provide build scripts to other users that way, or
> pre-built packages. As end-users can use upstream versions
> of these packages, just as I did, probably the best I can do
> is insert warning messages in the build scripts along with
> commentation.
> 
> Ideas anyone?

Anybody know what other packages are OpenGL dependent?