On Thursday 09 December 2004 02:14, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > For upgrading readline to a new major release (in Fedora > > development), do I need to provide a readline4 package, or is it > > sufficient to just rebuild the packages that depend on it? > > A compat library may be nice, considering the number of apps that > link against it. Check ABI compat within pkg first. Eg, you can link python 1.5 against db4 cuz db4 has db1-ish stuff still. Reduction of compat madness is optimal. have fun, -- -jeff
