On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Adam Heath wrote: > > > What? That means that you can't have a libpng3 program on a machine with > > > libqt2-dev installed ... icky. > > > > Yes, but that's the only way I see to ensure that there aren't some ugly > > problems like e.g. > > No, completely wrong. You want to keep the -dev packages from being installed > at once. It's the -dev package for a library that says what a program gets > linked to. Just having the library on the machine does not mean packages can > be linked to it. > > Get a clue.
I didn't get it yet. To put my example for an "ugly problem" in words: A program links with two libraries. One of them has an inter-library dependency on libpng2, the other one has an inter-library dependency on libpng3. AFAIR the -dev packages of these libraries don't necessarily have to depend on libpng*-dev. Is the last sentence wrong or where else am I wrong? TIA Adrian