On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:34:54AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > There's a better way to do this by just having different shared library > file names and sonames for each of the shared library packages. Then > the -dev packages can conflict, while one can install multiple packages > using the different shared libraries simultaneously, not one-at-a-time > as update-alternatives would do. > > Note this would also allow simultaneous install of hdf5-tools and > libhdf5-mpi-dev which is required to build several HDF5 reverse-depends, > such as med-fichier. This represents a major regression vs. 1.8.6 and > should be fixed as soon as possible. >
Are you proposing to install conflicting -dev packages with identical symlinks for ensuring transparent building in serial/parallel? I'm not sure that would not break in a very odd and tricky way intricated dependencies (e.g. building using headers of third parties that depend on and include different hdf5 flavors). I would avoid that. It is much more sane diverging headers names too and patch what ever is needed to be patched to use the right flavor. -- Francesco P. Lovergine _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel
