On 16/01/2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > > And there could have been been a provision for > namespaces in rpms and libraries so multiple versions of things could > co-exist - "namespaces in rpms" would not be enough. The OS environment would need to support the same namespaces, too, or else there would still be a run-time race between multiple minor versions of the same library. Notice that several libraries and applications can even be built with a different feature-set. Even multiple major releases of libraries cannot coexist peacefully, if not all packagers take extra (sometimes huge) efforts to avoid conflicts between data/doc/development files, and e.g. package them as "libfoo2" and "libfoo3". > but everyone wants to pretend that theirs is the only version > that matters. It's not that simple. There are many factors.
