On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 08:36:21PM +0200, Luca Barbieri wrote: > On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 20:08, Erich Schubert wrote: > > > > hacking the dynamic linker certainly is better than that... > > > This only allows to avoid creating wrappers but doesn't avoid the > > > problem that two libraries can't have the same filename. > > > Something (dpkg) must move one of them. > > No. The maintainer must, by uploading a new version of the old library, > > and using proper Conflicts. That way other packages can depend on the > > moved versions properly. > And it is not possible to install both a v2 ABI and a v3 ABI version of > the library. Of course it is. This is a solved problem. The question is how to set the libraries up on the system to make sure they can be *found* by the software that needs them. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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