On 2010-09-17, at 2:49 PM, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:

> Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 14:29 +0100, Anas Nashif a écrit :
>> Packages having the same name and residing in different repos should not be 
>> a problem, since the package manager can deal with same package name from 
>> two different vendors.
> This answer might be outside the subject scope, but the comment is not 
> correct. Many packages have features that can be turned on or off at build 
> time. If you may have a newer version of the library in a different 
> repository that does not support some feature you nead, then you program 
> won't work (usually resulting in a dynamic link error).

That is what I am saying, if I have library libXYZ from meego installed and 
working and someone adds the same library with a new version and other options 
in some other enabled repo, the dependency resolver will not take libXYZ from 
that other repo. 

Anas

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