Multilib Middle-Ground

[Les Mikesell]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Paul Howarth wrote:
>>> > I think we are all actually in violent agreement here, it's just 
>>> that some proprietary vendors seem to go out of their way to defeat 
>>> the dependency mechanisms that would help tools like yum install 
>>> their software.
>>
>> Have you looked at what packages  have to include to install on more 
>> than one linux distro/version?  And fedora is the worst of the bunch 
>> in terms of not being compatible with last week's version of itself.  
>> Give the 3rd party packagers a target before you complain about them 
>> missing it.
> 
> As Kevin mentioned earlier in this thread, the soname dependencies that 
> RPM adds automatically are *real* dependencies and I'm not aware of any 
> RPM-based distribution that doesn't use them. So what's the point of 
> stripping them out?
> 
> Stripping of pathname-based and package-name based dependencies I can 
> understand, but not the library deps.

Are they the same across all RPM based systems?

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