On 9/11/15, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I get the feeling this is related to Fedora not aggressively using > versioned package names for libraries, or at least enabling some kind > parallel installing capability. SUSE used to follow a policy similar to our > current one, but switched due to the insanity and impracticality. Mageia > also uses a policy almost identical to SUSE's. > > For an example, here's SUSE's policy: > https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Shared_library_packaging_policy
Put it bluntly, OpenSUSE does this like a mess, with introducing more and more packages instead of solving the problem. Initially copying the idea from Debian, introducing libfoo2, libbar3, or whatever is silly as well. -- Yours sincerely, Christopher Meng http://awk.io -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
