RFC: Soname in rpm name

[Jeff Johnson]

Aurelien Bompard wrote:

>Jeff Johnson wrote:
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>>Ick. I see the entropic death of packaging, one file per-package. Silly.
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>Of course not :)
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I shall have to find the package in Debian that not only added the 
libraray soname, but every Provides: and configure flag, to
the package name as well. The final package name is >4Kb.

Seriously, there are othere metadata elements than package name, even if 
Debian is still confused.

>Shared libraries are a different problem however, and it may be nice to
>install different versions at the same time.
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Installing multiple libraries with different sonames, and adding sonames 
to package NEVR, are very different issues.

73 de Jeff