Le 01/03/2016 11:37, Noel Torres a écrit :
It happens a lot that two packages you need request different versions
of the same library, not always co-installable. Mostly if you go
beyond "stable". Or even if you got stuck on oldstable and try to
install some simple new package.
And this is a good amount of the "dependency hell" when it comes to
Desktop users.
So, I think that having some way of installing multiple versions of
the same library would be a useful feature. Heck, even windows does
that in (some) right way.
I hesitated to reply because I know my answer is politically
incorrect. "dependency hell" is the consequence of dynamic linkage. I
understand that dynamic linkage is a necessity for distros, but if the
concern is about one package, this very one can be linked statically.
Just search for "static" in synaptic and you'll see that many Debian
packages, including bash and zsh have static versions, therefore it is
not so politically incorrect. Therefore nothing prevents bitcoin from
being statically linked - only glibc remaining dynamic.
Didier
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