On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monja...@6wind.com> wrote:
> Not sure about how it can be used in distributions, but it does not hurt > to provide the config option. > Are you going to link applications against a fixed DPDK version for > every libraries? > Kind of yes - we can still update "inside" a major version e.g. stable releases just fine. That helps a lot transitioning from one to the next release. I have an RFC patch for the Debian packaging making use of it this function that we will likely refresh and pick up on our next merge of a DPDK version. And I already heard that even other downstreams are using it to simplify their dependencies. Applied, thanks > Thanks ! -- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd