On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 14:09, Warly wrote: > Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 06:18, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > >> Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > Installing libwmf0.2_2-02.2-1mdk does not remove prior version: > >> > > >> > $ rpm -qa | grep libwmf0.2 > >> > > >> > libwmf0.2_1-0.2.1-1mdk > >> > libwmf0.2_2-0.2.2-1mdk > >> > >> That's the point of the "new lib policy". > > > > So we just get more and more and more libs forever? Is this why I have > > to keep manually uninstalling libfoo18-devel packages whenever I need to > > -Uvh libfoo19-devel? Surely something more elegant can be conceived. > > What do you propose?
The main problem seems to be that some closed-source products break when certain libraries are superseded. The two main ones I can think of offhand are QT and libc. Okay, so make exceptions for such high-profile libs, but I truly don't see the benefit to keeping 21 versions of libgal (or whatever number it's up to now), and other such mindless accumulation of packages as a general rule. -- Brad Felmey
