On Sunday 2016-07-10 13:13, Quentin Glidic wrote: > > If we install only one .pc file: > - You cannot develop against an old version.
I do not feel that is true. If you have Berkeley DB 4.5 in tarball form, you can build and `make install` it. Provided the SONAME is different (it is; libdb-4.5.so), it *ought* not to break the rest of your system which relies on libdb-4.8.so. If you have db 4.5 in distropackage form, you can install the libdb-4_5.rpm library, and it won't kick out libdb-4_8, and you can install libdb-4_5-devel.rpm, which only kicks out libdb-4_8-devel, but that is a negligible fact, as distro build results show that no one seriously needs 4.5 and 4.8 at the same time a particular software component is built. The example extends to packages other than bdb. (bdb has no .pc file, which is the same complexity class a one .pc file.) _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
