On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:42:05PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Josselin Mouette > | Le lundi 09 janvier 2006 à 14:41 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : > | > | Ladies and gentlemen, this is a perfect example of why linking indirect > | > | dependencies is a very bad thing. Let me explain. > | > > | > No, it's not. At least not in the way GTK & friends work. > | Why so? > Because GTK exports and depends on the definitions of GLib (and pango, > in this case) types, so if any of those definitions change, you must > get the right ones. How can those definitions change without changing the ABI of GTK itself? If the ABI of GTK changes, so must the soname. I don't see a problem here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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