On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 15:48:54 Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:39:33 PM CDT Kamil Dudka wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 16:19:23 Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Kamil Dudka (kdudka@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > Are you reading it from the specfile? > > > > > > > > It is just an implementation detail of the packaging (the > > > > RemovePathPostfixes feature of rpm). The string you mentioned neither > > > > appears in the SONAME, nor in any file installed by the RPMs in > > > > question. > > > > > > ... which means if the SONAME is the same, you either are dealing with > > > > > Conflicts: > > Exactly. libcurl conflicts with libcurl-minimal, which means that exactly > > one of them will be installed on any Fedora system at a time. On a > > regular > > system (server, desktop, etc.) it will always be libcurl. > > > > On the other hand, if you need to create a minimal installation of Fedora > > (e.g. a base image for Docker), you will pick libcurl-minimal instead of > > libcurl, to make the set of installed packages really minimal. > > > > > , or relying on the behavior of ldconfig to figure out which > > > library you happen to get at a particular time. > > > > ldconfig will always pick /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4 because there can be > > only > > one file with that name installed at a time. > > And how do you transition when you need to add the full featured version? # dnf install --allowerasing curl Kamil > Dennis -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx