>> Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, and this breaks the whole idea of SONAMES. I wonder how such shit > has ever been allowed to enter Debian.
Are we still talking about plug-ins here? I had that impression. Say, how is a SONAME useful for a plugin? A plug-in is not something you link directly into a program (that's the whole point of it), so it has no bussiness living in any directory that the dynamic linker searches. For the purposes of a plug-in, a namespace is as good a soname. If you desing your plug-in system in any sensible way, the user tells you "open foo" and your program will go looking for /usr/lib/bar/plugin-foo.so or whatever naming scheme makes you happy. The point is, you'll have your very own area where you can set up your very own mess. -- Marcelo | He'd been particularly pleased with Manchester. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Crowley contemplating his achievements | (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)