On 2/14/07, Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Neil Tiffin wrote: > > > often. Attached is the debian control file which seems to work fine and > > does not have all of this complexity. > > It would work, if "shlibs" worked on OSX, but unfortunately, it depends > on knowing how ELF libraries work. > > We've had a number of aborted attempts to port the Debian shlibs support > to Fink to be able to get rid of this complexity, but it's never reached > a usable state. As such, we need to handle these dependencies ourselves. > > > This is unproductive madness. I thought I would help out, to give > > back. But I don't have this much time to give. > > I'm sorry to hear it, I'll update your packages as soon as I get the > chance today, if someone doesn't beat me to it. > > - -- > Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick > Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development > http://www.racoonfink.com/ >
In my view it's not that complex. To lowest order: 1) Maintainers have their packages depend on a single libversion of a dependency. 2) -shlibs packages for different libversions must coexist, and therefore we don't delete old libversions of a package until _nothing_ depends on them, so that maintainers can update their packages to the later libversion at their leisure. -- Alexander K. Hansen (akh) Fink Documenter (still) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
