On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:54 PM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. pacman doesn't deal in symlinks in this manner. I think your understanding of WHAT a package is is a little off.
