Detecting shared library problems

[Robert Graham Merkel]

Derek Atkins writes:
 > Robert Graham Merkel <rgmerk@mira.net> writes:
 > 
 > > You might notice that we never hear of problems from Debian users
 > > trying to install the Debian packages.  That's because Debian *does*
 > > have this problem solved.  Debian dependancies are package rather than
 > > file-based, and the Debian package management front-ends automatically
 > > pull in required packages.
 > 
 > Huh?  RedHat package dependencies are both package and file based
 > dependencies.  Only the automatic dependencies are file-based.  The
 > packager, however, can supply a dependency on a particular package
 > version.  The only time this is really necessary is when you have
 > shared libraries that have the same SO-number but are incomptabile.
 > 

Thanks for the correction.

Debian can do package-based library dependancies automatically,
meaning there's never any problem figuring out which package you need
to install a library, and allowing Debian's package front ends to go
and easily grab all the dependancies required to install a package.


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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

<telsa> I left my client on #gtk+ overnight and there was nothing 
in scrollback at all except quit/rejoins.
<bighead> telsa: well its been that for, I think 3 days now 
(ever since started coming back on IRC)
<telsa> Clearly they are busy implementing telepathy, 
and dog-fooding it. :) 
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