Am Montag, 20. Mai 2002, 22:12:13 Uhr MET, schrieb Alexander Skwar: > So sprach Goetz Waschk am 2002-05-20 um 21:47:57 +0200 : > > So this is a proposal for a new library naming scheme: library package stay > > the same and all devel packages have to be renamed. That will be quite a lot > > of work :-( But you're right, it makes sense if you cannot install two devel > > packages of the same library. It's just bad for buildrequirements, because if > > you put buildRequires: libfoo3-devel in your spec file you expect the devel > > package to the API of libfoo.so.3, that's the easiest way to specify that. > > Sorry for fullquote - but I just don't understand it. > > devel library packages are already named libfoo2-devel, and if a package > needs devel stuff from libfoo2 it BuildRequires: libfoo2-devel. > > Or what do you mean? From what to what do you want to rename it?
Sorry, this was a misunderstanding. I said you wanted to rename the devel packages from libfoo2-devel to libfoo-devel and I tried to explain why this is a BAD idea (because of the buildrequires problem explained above). -- G�tz Waschk <> student of computer science <> university Rostock http://wwwstud.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/waschk.asc for PGP key --> Logout Fascism! <--
