Multilib Middle-Ground

[Paul Howarth]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>> > I think we are all actually in violent agreement here, it's just 
>> that some proprietary vendors seem to go out of their way to defeat 
>> the dependency mechanisms that would help tools like yum install their 
>> software.
> 
> Have you looked at what packages  have to include to install on more 
> than one linux distro/version?  And fedora is the worst of the bunch in 
> terms of not being compatible with last week's version of itself.  Give 
> the 3rd party packagers a target before you complain about them missing it.

As Kevin mentioned earlier in this thread, the soname dependencies that 
RPM adds automatically are *real* dependencies and I'm not aware of any 
RPM-based distribution that doesn't use them. So what's the point of 
stripping them out?

Stripping of pathname-based and package-name based dependencies I can 
understand, but not the library deps.

Paul.