Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Daniel Stone wrote:
>
> > > > How do you plan to prevent programs that link with libqt2 to also link
> > > > with libpng3 ? Manual check ?
> > >
> > > Another possiblility is the following (only the new dependencies are
> > > listed):
> > >
> > > Package: libqt2-dev
> > > Conflicts: libpng3
> > > Build-Conflicts: libpng3
> > >
> > > [note that libpng3 is the library package _not_ the -dev package]
> > >
> > >
> > > This way neither a program that links with libqt2 nor a library libqt2 is
> > > linked with can be linked with libpng3.
> >
> > What? That means that you can't have a libpng3 program on a machine with
> > libqt2-dev installed ... icky.
>
> Yes, but that's the only way I see to ensure that there aren't some ugly
> problems like e.g.
No, completely wrong. You want to keep the -dev packages from being installed
at once. It's the -dev package for a library that says what a program gets
linked to. Just having the library on the machine does not mean packages can
be linked to it.
Get a clue.
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