kdelibs 3/4 conflicts, plan

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Friday, 3. August 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Appended is a snippet from a conversation this morning on #kde4-devel
> ... thiago asked me to post it for wider consumption.
>
> Of particular interest to kde-packagers is stuff before
> ===
> after, kde-core-devel folks. :)  Enjoy.
>
> -- Rex
>
>
> [08:01] <rdieter> still seeing lots of kdelibs(3)/kdelibs(4) parallel
> install conflicts:
> http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter1/kde/kdelibs-3.5.7_3.92.0-conflicts.txt
>   suggestions?
> [08:02] <rdieter> (icons mostly, from the look of it)
> [08:08] <thiago> rdieter: the first 5 are developer tools and shouldn't
> be in kdelibs, but kdelibs-devel
> [08:08] <rdieter> thiago: thanks! that's 5 down... :)

Not really, there are platforms where "-devel" packages don't exist (and 
binary packages aren't even the standard vehicle for installing software.) 

A generic method to automatically add some suffix to filenames would nicely 
work around problems with conflicting binaries. Didn't autoconf have a switch 
for that? :P


Cheers,
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