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Re: The *.so files

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_lyra.org>
Date: 2002-11-07 22:31:23 CET

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:13:24AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>...
> There's one very good reason for it: if you put the plain .so symlink in
> the non-development package, then you cannot simultaneously install two
> different versions of a library

In general, yes. But note that SVN libraries all have [major] version
numbers encoded in the library name. Thus, we can simultaneously install two
versions of the library.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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