Xavian-Anderson Macpherson wrote: > > * We have to play the package-naming game if the upstream doesn't know > > about SONAME. > I just tried to find SONAME using man. How can I find out what this is? Will > the LSB eliminate this? What about the new UnitedLinux distribution.
man ld Neither LSB nor UL will eliminate sonames. If they would, you would experience a new set of problems that already happend when SuSE and RedHat used experimental glibc or gcc versions, just for everything. > > * If some other distribution uses, say, glibc 2.2 and Debian uses 2.1[1], > > then using the same package name doesn't work. > You are mixing apples and oranges. Why are or would you be using the same Maybe you should provide a detailed example instead. > name for packages that do not use the same dependencies. Again you missed my Because the distribution uses different libraries and stuff. > point. If you are using the packages as they come from the supplier, > everyone would have the same packages with the same dependencies. Here again No, then everybody would end up having to compile everything on their own. Regards, Joey -- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... -- Larry Wall