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  • From: Christian Sonne <christian AT subigo.dk>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Versioned dependencies
  • Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:41:43 +0100

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:14:24PM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Robin Cook said:
> > For this to work would we need to keep several version of different
> > spells around then?
> >
> > CuZnDragon
> > Robin Cook
>
> Yes, that's part of the complexity for spells. For example, we'd have
> guile-1.6.1 and guile-1.5.0 (for gnucash), then GNUCash would have (in
> it's DEPENDS):
>
> depends gnucash >= 1.3.0 and <= 1.5.0 (or some similar output, but this
> is the general idea).
>
> I'm not sure if it's really worth it (I only know of, off the top of my
> head, one spell which would benefit from this, my much exampled GNUCash.
> ;), so it may not even be worth the effort).

well.. this would also help rid the problems with Xft1/2, pango etc.
other distro's (gentoo) has obviously found this tactic worth the
trouble...

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