Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Christopher Meng]

On 9/11/15, Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ​I get the feeling this is related to Fedora not aggressively using
> versioned package names for libraries, or at least enabling some kind
> parallel installing capability. SUSE used to follow a policy similar to our
> current one, but switched due to the insanity and impracticality. Mageia
> also uses a policy almost identical to SUSE's.
>
> For an example, here's SUSE's policy:
> https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Shared_library_packaging_policy​

Put it bluntly, OpenSUSE does this like a mess, with introducing more
and more packages instead of solving the problem. Initially copying
the idea from Debian, introducing libfoo2, libbar3, or whatever is
silly as well.
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Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng

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