Fair enough. I was trying to think if there's a cleaner way of avoiding breakage. I found http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15982 which seems to provide some sanity. I was trying to think if there's anything, as a packager, that I could do to prevent or mitigate dll hell (.so hell? ) -- csgeek On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Florian Pritz <bluewind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 28.09.2010 17:39, Samir wrote: >> Now, to be fair.. mplayer probably should have been linked against >> libx264.so rather then libx264.so.104 (-git package provides a >> libx264.so.105). > > Normally that number only changes if the libraries aren't compatible > anymore. That means mplayer might break completely or behave strange if > you mess with that. > > Linking to libx264.so would be the same as creating a symlink from 104 > to 105 btw. > -- > Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net > >
