On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:40:43 +0100, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Not sure how this fits in here. These are valid points you make, but > they are valid for both the current and a soname-in-the-rpmname scheme > :) keeping the package the same name... regardless of the soname means on distro upgrade the old version gets removed. This works to expire an older library package but breaks externally build apps that need the old library. You want to keep those things from breaking and I want to expired libs off the system. I would prefer to use the sonames in the packages as sparingly as possible.. to minimize the amount of deprecated libraries on system...until there is a solution to the larger question of how expiring of a package is suppose to work. -jef
