On 20-Feb-99 Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 02:07:29PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: >> > Why does it have to be *versioned*? It is logical that when you >> > depend on some package without version, you depend on every available >> > version of that package. It would be normal to presume that if >> > you provide some package without, you provide every available version >> > of that package, wouldn't it? >> >> Would seem so, but there could be a reason why version 0.2.1 was needed >> rather >> than 0.3. Provides will please a package's depends as long as it does not >> care >> about the version. > > That also makes sense. Unfortunately, it makes replacing any library > impossible since most (all?) libs have versions in shlibs :( > Actually, it is possible with forcing, but... >
Correct. I had the same problem when I tried to change Imlib's name. Look thru the history for that debaucle (-:
