Re: Virtual packages for shared libraries?
Previously Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings! If package A provides shared lib libfoo.so.2 in /usr/lib,
> and package B provides an equivalent lib in /usr/lib/<subdir>, can
> package B list 'Provides: foo' in its control, even though any
> packages depending on libfoo.so.2 would only run when package B was
> installed when LD_PRELOAD or LD_LIBRARY_PATH was set?
No. Provides doesn't deal with versioned dependencies currently
anyway so it won't work.
Wichert.
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