Re: curl 7.14.0-5: OpenSSL vs GnuTLS is still a problem
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Paul TBBle Hampson <Paul.Hampson@anu.edu.au> writes:
> > A GPL package (which only depends on libcurl3-gnutls) is installed:
> > libcurl3-gnutls gets pulled in
> >
> > A package that can't work with gnuTLS version of libcurl (and
> > therefore libcurl3-gnutls conflicts with it) is installed:
> > libcurl3 gets pulled in
> >
> > Packages of both above types are installed:
> > Unresolvable. However, this is also not possible now, unless
> > a GPL package is linking against the OpenSSL-using libcurl,
> > and therefore the GPL package has an RC bug.
>
> It could certainly be resolved: different libraries should install
> different files.
You also need different SYMBOLS. Which requires symbol versioning, and that
the symbols provided bu curl+gnutls be differently versioned than the
symbols provided by curl+openss.
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