[Gllug] gtk+ or Qt? (or others?)

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On Mon, 13 May 2002, Matthew Kirkwood uttered the following:
> On Mon, 13 May 2002 tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
>> This leads people like RH, SuSE, etc. to resort to crude workarounds
>> like renaming packages (RH ship both glib, and glib10, for example).
>> That in turn screws up dependencies for third party packages. Do they
>> depend on glib, or glib10? If you put a dependency on glib now, then
>> your package may fail on RH8.0 where it'll have been renamed glib12 to
>> make room for glib-2.0.
> 
> You depend on "libglib-1.2.so" or similar.  That way, if

No you don't. File dependencies are an abomination from the darkest pits
of Hell, and should never have been implemented (IMNSHO).

> someone releases glib 1.5 with the name soname (ie. which
> happens to be binary compatible) it'll Just Work.

Filename does not necessarily equal soname.

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`There are not words enough to describe how fucked up imake is.'
                                        --- Peter da Silva

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