FC5 Wishlist

[Jim Cornette]

Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:41:58PM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>Horst von Brand wrote:
>>
>>>Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>What should be available are libraries that are as current as possible.
>>
>>As an example: FC4 provides
>>/usr/lib/libdb.so.2
>>
>>Program requires a later version.
>>
>>libdb.so.3 is needed by gmc-4.5.51-16.i386
> 
> 
> This gmc package has a dependency on Berkeley DB 3.x, which hasn't been
> current since before RHL 8.0 (which is why it's not even in compat-db
> any more).
> 
> Nalin
> 


Thanks!

I was surprised that the lib version is one version newer than the one 
supplied in gnome-libs. Nothing seems to need this older library version 
either. How did an older version than shipped with RHL 8.0 end up in 
current gnome-libs?

Jim

rpm -q --whatrequires /usr/lib/libdb.so.2
no package requires /usr/lib/libdb.so.2

rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/libdb.so.2
gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-46