Re: Debian as a social group and how to develop it better
Xavian-Anderson Macpherson wrote:
> > * We have to play the package-naming game if the upstream doesn't know
> > about SONAME.
> I just tried to find SONAME using man. How can I find out what this is? Will
> the LSB eliminate this? What about the new UnitedLinux distribution.
man ld
Neither LSB nor UL will eliminate sonames. If they would, you would
experience a new set of problems that already happend when SuSE and
RedHat used experimental glibc or gcc versions, just for everything.
> > * If some other distribution uses, say, glibc 2.2 and Debian uses 2.1[1],
> > then using the same package name doesn't work.
> You are mixing apples and oranges. Why are or would you be using the same
Maybe you should provide a detailed example instead.
> name for packages that do not use the same dependencies. Again you missed my
Because the distribution uses different libraries and stuff.
> point. If you are using the packages as they come from the supplier,
> everyone would have the same packages with the same dependencies. Here again
No, then everybody would end up having to compile everything on their
own.
Regards,
Joey
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