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Re: should a "normal* system have multiple library versions?



On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully-updated lenny
> system right now, and i see not a single example of a lib package
> for which multiple versions are installed, which is what i would
> expect.

  argh, i take it back -- i just noticed that this system has both
libdb4.5 and libdb4.6 but checking with "apt-cache rdepends" shows
quite a number of packages that still need 4.5, so i'm guessing that's
a special case.

rday
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