On 9 Jan 2025, at 18:35, Khem Raj via lists.openembedded.org 
<raj.khem=gmail....@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> 
> I know this patch is applied but I still want to bring it to attention
> Many packages in other layers depend on fmt.  fmt's APIs are not or
> not used in a very backward compatible way
> some packages provide an option to use vendored version of fmt so in
> case of system fmt being not compatible is not
> a huge issue other than duplication, but some packages e.g. gerbera
> rely on system provided fmt and it still has not moved to
> 11.1

If fmt has basically no API stability, should we just have fmt10, fmt11 etc 
recipes instead?

The -dev packages for each of those will conflict as they don’t version the 
headers, but at least the library packages could be parallel installed.

Ross
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