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 If you may have a newer version of the library in a different 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 _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
