portage vs yum

[Peter Gordon]

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 19:50 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> DPKG doesn't support that, so Debian's solution is to just call the package 
> providing libfoo.so.42 libfoo42, so when libfoo.so.43 comes out, the packages 
> will require libfoo43 and apt will know that libfoo42 is insufficient.

Great; thank you for the clarification. :)
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