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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: ABI deps and DEPEND labelling
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:07:20
Message-Id: 20080821170709.0947eed5@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Re: ABI deps and DEPEND labelling by Steve Long
1 On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:54:32 +0100
2 Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 > > You might find http://kloeri.livejournal.com/6771.html useful too.
4 > >
5 > Actually I found it depressing; you'll be wanting credit for readelf
6 > next..
7
8 I'm not quite sure how you got from Diego rejecting helpful comments
9 because they describe a solution thought out by the wrong people to
10 that...
11
12 > One thing that puzzles me is I never see .so versioning mentioned, eg
13 > libc.so.5 vs .6 linking to latest providing specified ABI.
14
15 Unix already has mechanisms for dealing with that. All the package
16 manager needs to make use of that is := slot dependencies, which you
17 can find documented in PMS for kdebuild-1. But since I invented them,
18 I'm looking forward to see what reason you can cook up for disliking it.
19
20 --
21 Ciaran McCreesh

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