Re : wxGTK2 2.6 and aMule

> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:15:47 +0200
> From: Matthias Saou
> 	<thias@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
> Subject: wxGTK2 2.6 and aMule
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> Hi,
> 
> Having waited a long time for a wxGTK fix or a wxGTK2 update in Fedora
> Extras 4, I've finally decided to rebuild my own wxGTK packages of 2.6.1
> in order to get aMule finally working. Obviously, I won't release them
> into the main freshrpms.net repository since it would mean massive
> breakage... so here they are :
> 
> http://ftp.es6.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/testing/4/wxGTK-2.6/
> 
> I don't think there is any clean way of keeping applications that use
> wxGTK 2.4.x when these packages are installed, at least not without
> providing a compatibility package/library.
> 
> For now, I'm not really sure what to do... I've thought of statically
> linking wxGTK2 2.6.1 into aMule... could be a good solution for now in
> order to not break any Extras wxGTK packages and still provide a working
> aMule package... dunno for sure, suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Matthias
> 

"statically linking wxGTK2 2.6.1 into aMule" may be the better
solution. No more dependancies problems and the packages shouldn't be 
too heavy ...

You may also provide 2 versions, "static" and "dynamic"  but this may be 
  too much (absurd) work

Amael