On Thursday 21 October 2004 21:19, Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Thursday 21 October 2004 7:00 pm, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> > These problems (as rac mentions) can somewhat be overcome by freezing
> > the toolchain or (as rac doesn't really mention) freezing the whole
> > tree.  I know freezing the tree has been mentioned as an "enterprise"
> > type option (having a supported tree with backported security fixes),
> > though it would help with desktop binary compatibility as well.
>
> Or simply by updating the RDEPEND in the binary pkg to lock it to
> specific versions of packages. The problem then would be figuring out
> which packages are binary compatible and *not* locking those.

Unfortunately the requirements for RDEPEND in a binary package are more in 
the like of depend on library L with useflags A, B and C, and linked 
against the libraries with sonames X, Y and Z. And even for those sonames 
you would want a minimal version. In short dll hell revisited.

Paul

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