On Fre, 11 Jan 2002, Mario Miko�evi� wrote:

> better left that way if I don't want to have reports from people about
> incompatibilities with thatX or thatY version of something installed
> when installing avifile.
> I just don't want to force people into rebuilding Qt every time they
> want to install avifile.

I don't get that logic. By compiling against the latest snapshot of a 
testing rpm you want to avoid that people have to rebuild Qt every time they 
install a new avifile ??

Usually things are backward-compatible only, so you need to compile against 
the oldest version still supported in order to make it work automatically 
for everyone. Compiling against the newest packages forces _everybody_ to 
update _everything_ in order to install your package. 

And by using a gcc 3.1 compiler you even require people to reinstall all C++ 
applications, patch glibc by hand with a patch and recompile it as well. 

Great dependencies!


Dirk

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