C++ compatibility package dropped
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Sun Jun 26 11:06:27 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 12:58 +0200, Carl-Johan Kjellander wrote:
> Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > As long as the legacy programs people are installing are packaged
> > as rpm, yum or other package managers can handle the dependencies
> > just fine, so I don't see how is that a silent break.
> > If not using a package manager, you take the responsibility
> > of satisfying the dependencies yourself.
>
> Won't the ones making those rpms have to look into the future and
> require that compat-libstdc++-XX is installed, even though that
> package doesn't exist yet for the current FC version?
No. rpmbuild will pick up the library dep, and yum will fulfill it.
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