Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-17 Thread Harald Dunkel
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I can follow your argument. Dpkg should allow installing different C++ abis on the same machine. Only within each dependency chain the abi version number must be unique, so it should become some kind of package attribute.

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I can follow your argument. Dpkg should allow installing different C++ abis on the same machine. Only within each dependency chain the abi version number must be unique, so it

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: I know, but as written before, IMHO the abi version number should not be encoded in the package name. Usually you just get a new abi, but no new functionality, so why introduce a new name? Just to work around the limitations of

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: yes welcome to the c++ abi transition Maybe this has been suggested before, but... Probably more C++ abi changes will follow. To support a smooth migration I would like to suggest to create empty packages describing the C++ abis. A package maintainer could add

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: yes welcome to the c++ abi transition Maybe this has been suggested before, but... Probably more C++ abi changes will follow. To support a smooth migration I would like to suggest to create empty packages describing

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: A single C++-ABI package would just mean that all c++ packages are kept back (or removed) from the very start of the c++ transition up to the very end. There will be a lot of packages at the end of the dependency chains that you don't have installed and that will

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: A single C++-ABI package would just mean that all c++ packages are kept back (or removed) from the very start of the c++ transition up to the very end. There will be a lot of packages at the end of the dependency chains