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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>
To: Gentoo Developers <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA question wrg. GRP
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 05:35:29
Message-Id: 4021D5E4.7090701@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] QA question wrg. GRP by Spider
1 Spider wrote:
2 > okay,
3 > heres a juicy little thing with packages that depend (RDEPEND too) on
4 > openssl.
5 >
6 > If an old system (openssl 0.9.6) installs said packages, we have a
7 > working satisfied openssl install. However, this will fail miserably
8 > once installed, since the packages themselves actually link to
9 > libssl.so.0.9.7 and libcrypto.so.0.9.7.
10 >
11 > So, is there any way to make this behaviour work "better" with Gentoo?
12 >
13
14 *Sigh* Okay, it seems that I'm brain dead tonight, but I'm completely
15 confused. Exactly what is the issue (in terms that old/tired folks can
16 understand)?
17
18 Thanks,
19 g2boojum

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Re: [gentoo-dev] QA question wrg. GRP Spider <spider@g.o>