On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 05:28 , Max Horn wrote:
> Of course that is suboptimal. In this situation, the only way for the > user to update would be to first remove the old versions of the > dependant stuff, then update the lib, then reinstall the removed stuff. > Yucky. Yes, I agree. We might be able to figure out how to use that capability within fink, to > Maybe we should start to adopt the approach Debian uses for this... > refer to_ > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s11.2 and #s11.3 That should almost be implemented hand in hand with the 'variants' feature we have been discussing. It's not the same, but we might be able to figure out how to create various 'lib*' packages automatically when a certain tag is included, even add a separate 'shlibs' tag, something that could be used to customize the creation of those packages, even configure their dependancies automatically, have foo depend on one of libfoo or libfoo-dev, accordingly. > And maybe also take a look at this: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html > > > Cheers, > > Max IMHO, Kyle Moffett _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
