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[Richard Hughes]

On 18 May 2011 09:36, Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> wrote:
> Is there anybody working on / using these PK concepts, still ?

There must be some people -- I broke catalog support accidentally a
few releases back and got maybe 6 or 7 bug reports.

> Why would you need static linking ? Couldn't you use shared libs ?

What version does Fedora 15 have of qt4? What about Fedora 13? Debian?
What compile flags do they use? There are loads of things that made
the binary API different between distros, distro patches being one of
the hardest things to manage. For instance, Ubuntu backports qt4 to
have xinput2 support, which breaks ABI and apps like scribus.

It's a landmine out there.

> Software licensing shouldn't directly affect the packaging, I think.

Licencing isn't the problem. It can be _a_ problem, but not the
biggest one here.

Richard.