On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 20:06 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:34:03AM +0100, Aurelien Bompard wrote: > > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowToAdvanced#Library_policy > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html > > > > How about a similar policy for Fedora ? Is it the best solution to this > > problem ? > > I think this is an area, where other distributions have found nice > solutions and Fedora/Red Hat should simply use one of the existing > policies (instead of creating one from scratch). I sort of agree, but shipping such packages should be done only if absolutely necessary in FC/FE. Carrying backwards compatibility baggage is not something that aligns well with the project's objectives IMO. See eg. points 5 and 7 in Objectives (and maybe 3 in Non-Objectives) at http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html Of course, there are other distributions with other kinds of focuses than the Fedora one where doing this soname-in-name thing might actually be a good general rule of thumb rather than an ugly exception.
