[Fedora-packaging] Conflicts Draft Proposal Round 2

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 09:53 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 17:03 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 21:45, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > 
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Conflicts
> > 
> > I still don't think that the suggested way of handling library name conflicts 
> > (or more specifically, the ld.so.conf part of it) makes sense.
> > 
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2006-December/msg00060.html
> 
> 
> OK. Do you have any ideas on how we should handle this? This was the
> only idea I could come up with, but I can see the flaw in it.

That's exactly the situation rpath is being designed for.

/me ducks and hides.

Ralf