C++ compatibility package dropped

[Paul]

On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 12:58 +0200, Carl-Johan Kjellander wrote:
> Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > As long as the legacy programs people are installing are packaged
> > as rpm, yum or other package managers can handle the dependencies
> > just fine, so I don't see how is that a silent break.
> > If not using a package manager, you take the responsibility
> > of satisfying the dependencies yourself.
> 
> Won't the ones making those rpms have to look into the future and
> require that compat-libstdc++-XX is installed, even though that
> package doesn't exist yet for the current FC version?
> 
> Otherwise I can't see how you can make yum do the right thing for an old
> app, maybe less than 6 months old even.

Commercial apps probably have the biggest trouble, since they usually
don't use RPMs and the installer is not usually smart enough to
recommend installing a certain package.  A few I've run into are smart
enough to check and at least stop the install saying you need libraries
foo & bar installed.

Paul Berger