Hi,
Laurent Blume wrote:
FWIW, here's what I see on CentOS7:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 226 10 juin 2014 libpng15.pc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 11 janv. 20:38 libpng.pc -> libpng15.pc
And the current CSW package:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 avr 28 09:22 libpng.pc -> libpng16.pc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 236 avr 21 15:19 libpng16.pc
Gentoo's setup is exactly the same. But gentoo points that old libraries
are kept for binary compatibilities and you are expected to build always
against latest, which looks the only safe to do.
Otheriwse we need what Gentoo calls "slots" that means both versions can
co-exist, but it means hiding stuff in subdirectories and that is really
a mess and causes massive headache: most packages need to be patched
with extra include paths.
Riccardo
