On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:52:39AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Bill Allombert <[email protected]> [2009-03-17 17:02]: > > > What is the rational for making the library private in the first place ? > > In the case of the octave package, it is a decision of the upstream > authors. I think that one of the reasons is to avoid name clashes between > different branches of octave. For instance, we have curently: > > octave3.0: /usr/lib/octave-3.0.4/liboctave.so > octave3.1: /usr/lib/octave-3.1.54/liboctave.so
Well they could version the library instead: /usr/lib/liboctave-3.0.4.so /usr/lib/liboctave-3.1.54.so (libdb4.x does something similar) cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
