On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 04:18:34PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Your whole argument is just void. There is not a single difference > > between "external" packages and (sub-)packages. > There is one difference: with subpackages it is trivial to write a > Requires: that 1) is always strict enough and 2) is always satisfied. > For external packages achieving both requires non-trivial human > effort. Not at all. The simplest thing to do is to ensure that any binary depends on at least the version of any libraries it was linked against, which is the way Debian handle this in the absence of maintainer overrides. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
