Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > I know I am talking against the trend of the day here that goes towards > multiplying the number of packages. I am not yet convinced, for example, > of the real usefulness of the splitting off of -shlibs and -bin > packages. I'll be convinced if this allows peaceful coexistence of qt2 > and qt3, and this without having to recompile qt six times for every update.
This is the goal. We need to have pairs of packages like qt2 and qt3 which can peacfully coexist. Creating qt2-shlibs and qt3-shlibs is the same strategy used by Debian (except for the naming of packages). Right now the -shlibs business is under development, and you have to do two compiles for packages which have a -shlibs partner. Once we fully implement the plan, a single fink build or install command will build both fink packages foo and foo-shlibs, compiling things once only. (Well, you will still need to compile both qt2 and qt3, but this is only natural :-) -- Dave _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
