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On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:02:05 +0300 |
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Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> > SLOTs are for where a user may want to have multiple versions of the |
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> > same package installed, for example where they require headers from |
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> > two different versions or where they require shared objects from two |
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> > different versions. |
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> And then you suggest we have support code to make the headers not |
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> collide? I think time would be better spent improving the package |
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> manager[s] instead of hacks like this. |
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It is not, in general, a package manager solvable solution. In the real |
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world many packages have runtime dependencies that are not .so files. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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