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Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...



On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, lee wrote:
> As to package management: When you don't have a software installed,
> other software you have installed shouldn't depend on the software you
> don't have installed when the installed software doesn't use the
> software which is not installed.

Except that it the software does depend on the shared library being
installed. Binaries which link against shared libraries must have the
shared library present to run. Otherwise they have a linker failure, and
never start running in the first place.

-- 
Don Armstrong                      http://www.donarmstrong.com

Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
 -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p242


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