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Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies



Le jeudi 30 juin 2005 à 13:12 -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva a écrit :
> Why not simply puting the loader inside the library package? If the
> loader should always be together with the library, then make them one
> package and be done with it.
> 
> I may be missing something obvious, but I don't see the point of having
> a -commong package in this case.

If the library SONAME changes, the loader's filename doesn't need to
change. However, in this case, the two versions of the library must be
able to be installed together, so the loader has to be in a different
package.
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