[haiku-development] Re: Package Management - application bundle policy
- From: Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:57:49 +0100
On 2011-01-11 at 16:28:36 [+0100], Mark Watts <miraiwarren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just a question really: if the package maintainer/developer knows the needed
> version of library dependencies then can't they just specify a single
> version (e.g. depend == media-sound/amarok-2.3.2-r1) rather than a range
> (e.g. depend >= media-sound/amarok-2.3.2-r1)? Wouldn't that provide the
> desired stability as long as the package manager has no arbitrary limits on
> what older versions are available?
Yes, if the package maintainer knows what he's doing, that would work - so in
your example, the ELF dependency (NEEDED lib) would have to match the
declared dependency exactly. Of course, we should provide some tool that can
extract the dependencies from applications & libraries in order to put them
into a package.
cheers,
Oliver
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