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[Ralf Nolden]

On Samstag, 5. Juli 2003 15:56, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Saturday 05 July 2003 15:16, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > On Samstag, 5. Juli 2003 14:38, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:33:02PM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > > > Example: libvcard.so.* has been renamed to libvcards.so.* in
> > > > kdelibs
> > >
> > > That's not right, I just installed libvcards additionally to
> > > libvcard, so it's not BIC.
> >
> > Errrrr, ever heard of something like "packaging" ? and that you have
> > to keep the compatibility in KDE 3.x ? That means that if you update
> > your kdelibs packages on your machine you're effectively *replacing*
> > libvcard.so with libvcards.so*, which means all apps that linked to
> > libvcards.so won't run anymore. You have to provide a copy of the lib
> > in order to keep compatibility. As that isn't usual nor necessary you
> > need to keep the library name, thus the binary compatibility.
> > Everything else means it's only going to work for people who use
> > Linux from Scratch or something.
>
> What are you talking about? libvcard is still built and installed.
> libvcards is another library which is installed in addition to
> libvcard.

Oh, sorry then :/ I'm in a hurry so don't mind me rattling about things too 
much.

Ralf

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