Re: curl situation is intolerable
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> It is *absolutely intolerable* to declare such conflicts for shared
>> libraries, where there are easy solutions: MAKE TWO LIBRARIES THAT
>> HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES.
>
> The package has to build libraries with differently versioned symbols as
> well, to avoid total app meltdown if both libraries are loaded into the same
> address space.
Yes, but I don't mind that nearly as much. That's a much rarer
obstacle than one which simply segregates Debian packages into two
separate camps, and every use must pick one or the other. That's what
the current "solution" amounts to.
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