On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 19:26 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 6/24/05, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is it really that hard to check that group in if you want to use > > legacy software? Not everybody uses legacy software, so forcing > > it for everyone in the base group is a bad idea IMHO. > > I think... the long term solution to address this issue, is to first > find a way to inform users that a library is missing. Launching an app > with a missing library from the gnome panel or menu doesn't give you > feedback about the missking library. And beyond that hook the > notification into a query of the configured repository metadata to > make a suggestion as to what to install to get the missing library. > > -jef > While I agree with Jef that there needs to be some GUI feedback when dynamic linking fails, another useful long term solution would be to beat the C++ people with a cluebat until they stop breaking the ABI every release. -- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
