Richard Freeman wrote:
> The dynamic linker doesn't need to consult the filename to figure out 
> how to parse a shared object.  It only consults the filename to figure 
> out which shared object is needed.  That is actually analogous to 
> putting the package name/version in the ebuild filename.

Right.  Plus, if the linker *did* consult the filename, imagine what
would happen if someone renamed the file (even by accident) and changed
the version?  The parser should not be able to be so easily fooled -
could cause great confusion and or nasty and weird bugs - seems very
fragile to me.  Having the version *in* the file is much safer, since
monkeying with that would require editing it the file, rather than
renaming it.

						-Joe