On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > Don't you have .src.rpms for these applications? > > That only helps when you have a build environment, Sure - but build enviornment is very simple to set up. > and when the changes that cause the shared library to version don't > also cause the app to stop compiling without patching. Sure - changes can prevent the compile. but sometimes the version bump is there eventhough the interface hasn't changed. (for eg: the interface functions didn't change - but some datastructures/typedefs specified in the public include file for this package went through a minor tweak) There could also be a case where compile goes through - but the interface did change causing mysterious breakage. So I guess working with source requires a bit more care.. (as you appear to alude to) Satish
