RFC: Soname in rpm name

[Aurelien Bompard]

Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> installonly packages are already well understood by depsolvers.  Look
> at the kernel packages.

True, but we would need something which can be set in the package itself.
It looks like something unofficial is already used by Red Hat : if other
packages depend on the old library, provide it in a different package
containing the library's soname. For example, libpng and libpng10.


Aurélien
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