Arch Linux

Description: A user of vsxu-git in the AUR has pointed out the remove statement in the package section of the PKGBUILD seems to be a bit blind and heavy handed, removing not only files that conflict with libpng but core components. At present this package provides only the shared object files necessary for dynamically linked binaries to run. It lacks the necessary header files for users wanting to build applications from source. The lack of these files also makes lib32-libpng12's dependency on this package superfluous as it doesn't provide anything but the licence: a symbolic link to the licence saves little space and will cause utilities like namcap to complain it's missing.

As part of some tests I modified the PKGBUILD to trim out only the files that conflict directly with libpng instead of everything but the .so files. The updated package recipe in total is located here: https://gist.github.com/WoefulDerelict/23ca3183aa9ec0b240589c8cd9439f5c

The remove command in package was made much more specific, eliminating only the conflicting symlinks and manuals. I changed it from: rm -rf "${pkgdir}"/usr/{bin,include,lib/{libpng.{a,so},pkgconfig},share} to: rm -rf "${pkgdir}"/usr/{bin/libpng-config,include/*.h,lib/{libpng.{a,so},pkgconfig/libpng.pc},share}

Additional info:
libpng12-1.2.56-4