[Bug 285185] graphics/gdk-pixbuf2 Unable to run gkrellm after update to gdk-pixbuf2, xpm not supported

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=285185

Charlie Li <vishwin@freebsd.org> changed:

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             Status|New                         |Open
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           Assignee|ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org      |desktop@FreeBSD.org

--- Comment #11 from Charlie Li <vishwin@freebsd.org> ---
I don't intend on flavourising this. With the current gdk-pixbuf code, can't
really build the other loaders separately/isolated without a lot more
complexity in both code and port. Flavourising adds more complexity to the
ports framework without much benefit since this has many consumers.

Also not exactly keen on re-enabling OTHER by default; upstream has been firm
about discouraging use of effectively unmaintained code. However, one of the
upstream maintainers split these loaders into a separate repository with a
build system to match. I'm open to porting that and removing the OTHER option.

(In reply to rkoberman from comment #2)
Was the commit message, both with the changelog link and the explicit separate
notable mention of this, not enough?

wrt POLA in general, sometimes upstreams have to make decisions to keep their
projects moving. What can seem like a sudden astonishing change may have been
brewing for some time but consumers were not paying attention (for a variety of
reasons, like debt) until the full impact happened. In this specific case, they
admitted that doing this in the existing release branch was poorly executed,
but it had to be done.

(In reply to Felix Palmen from comment #9)
Upstream wants to divest these loaders entirely from the main codebase.

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