RFC: Soname in rpm name

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Jan 24 12:45:01 UTC 2005


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Le lundi 24 janvier 2005 à 13:23 +0100, Aurelien Bompard a écrit :
>>
>> Well, I think that adding the soname to the rpm name could help with that:
...
> Well if it can be easily solved how come we still have this problem ?
> There are several packages that use the soname approach in FC and they
> are the ones that are a PITA to cleanup now and then

Agreed.  Avoid the extra hassle of multiply installed libfoo.so's unless 
absolutely necessary.  Otherwise, it's added complexity and bloat for 
relatively little gain.

-- Rex


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