On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 12:36:55AM +0200, Ionut Biru wrote: > you are focusing only on .so which is different but this schema will > work only if the package is split in lib, -dev, whatever as now, the > headers will conflict since it have the same name on the same > location. Not true. When a new version is installed, the headers are replaced, and the symlink from 'libfoo.so' is modified to the new version. In a link step you refer to the lib as '-lfoo' which gets translated (via that symlink) into 'libfoo.so.N', the newest installed version. If you have separate -dev and -lib packages (and Arch hasn't AFAICS) it is the package manager's job to always replace both in sync. Nothing magical about that, all distros I used before just did it that way. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
