Re: Provide something only to specific packages? ("Private" Provides)

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ty den 08.11.2005 Klokka 09:59 (+0100) skreiv Toralf Lund:


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(Note that the library package can't install the libs on a "normal" lib directory as that could easily lead to file conflicts. Instead, the libs are written to an a special directory configured as an additional place to look for shared objects, in the application binary.)

This is (in principle) what Buchan Milne, Mandriva's OpenLDAP
maintainer, does to avoid BDB 4.2 conflict problems with his OpenLDAP
2.3 rpms/srpms for Mandriva/Red Hat RHAS. Only he just gives the single
BDB patched lib another soname. It works very well.

Actually, it's also because of this situation I've wanted "or" in Requires (see another recent thread), as that would present an

--Tonni

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