On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:44:47PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote:
> >The risk is that you can't install the new -dev package on a system that > >has > >the old lib installed, because they conflict. One normally wants to be > >able > >to build and test binaries for a new library *before* purging the old > >version of the library... > But the -dev package always depends on the non-dev of the exact same > version. This means I cannot install the new version without upgrading > the library itself anyways. > What am I missing here? The fact that two versions of the library with different ABIs should be *installable in parallel*. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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