On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:17:15PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > 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. So *who* creates the symlink from libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.1.2.3 ? It's either pacman or ldconfig called by pacman. Unless you believe in little gremlins doing it while you sleep. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
