Hi, On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:20:08AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote: > Take this up with James Troup (elmo) he previously rejected the packages > due to the splittage. As you can easily read from your own quote the > reason for not including binaries in library packages is so that > multiple versions can be installed at once. This _CAN NOT_ happen for > libarts regardless of if the binaries are split out of the package. Forgive me if it's obvious, but to me it isn't - why not? Isn't the whole idea of the quoted text to make lib* packages 'pure' in the sense that both the package name and *all* installed files must have a soname embedded somewhere, so that multiple versions _CAN_ be installed? If upstream doesn't bump the soname often enough, I suppose there are better ways of dealing with that than starting to optimize based on the assumption that different versions will always conflict. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen emile@e-advies.nl tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl
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