On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 01:57:38PM -0000, Mattia Verga wrote:
> does every package which provides a library requires to provide unversioned
> copy of the library?
It does not need. But that makes the library pretty hostile to a standard use
of a dynamic library and that is a linking to it at build time.
> Here the libpasraw library only provides versioned
> copy of the library. It's just a private library which is used only by other
> projects from the same author which require the library only at runtime.
>
Then the library should not be installed into the standard path (%{_libdir}).
If the file is not for a public use, it only polutes the name space.
-- Petr
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