326763 – app-emulation/open-vm-tools: Missing media-libs/libpng RDEPEND

Bug 326763 - app-emulation/open-vm-tools: Missing media-libs/libpng RDEPEND

Summary: app-emulation/open-vm-tools: Missing media-libs/libpng RDEPEND

Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High QA (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled]

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Reported:	2010-07-03 18:57 UTC by Samuli Suominen (RETIRED)
Modified:	2010-07-04 00:54 UTC (History)
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Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-03 18:57:40 UTC

As shown in bug 326761, open-vm-tools is using libpng directly. 
Right now libpng gets pulled in by the x11-libs/gtk+ depend in the ebuild, but implicit depends are bad... This is why it was never tested against libpng-1.4, and the bug got noticed too late.

Comment 1 Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-04 00:54:46 UTC

agreed, fixed, thanks.