Re: conflict/replace/provide
On 20-Feb-99 Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 02:07:29PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
>> > Why does it have to be *versioned*? It is logical that when you
>> > depend on some package without version, you depend on every available
>> > version of that package. It would be normal to presume that if
>> > you provide some package without, you provide every available version
>> > of that package, wouldn't it?
>>
>> Would seem so, but there could be a reason why version 0.2.1 was needed
>> rather
>> than 0.3. Provides will please a package's depends as long as it does not
>> care
>> about the version.
>
> That also makes sense. Unfortunately, it makes replacing any library
> impossible since most (all?) libs have versions in shlibs :(
> Actually, it is possible with forcing, but...
>
Correct. I had the same problem when I tried to change Imlib's name. Look
thru the history for that debaucle (-:
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