[arch-general] library version conflict -- how does Arch solve this ?

[Allan McRae]

On 08/02/10 11:21, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Today I installed Latex (texlive). Doing this installed
> new versions of libpng and libjpeg, and this broke emacs,
> xv and gnuplot (and maybe others I haven't discovered yet).
>
> I was able to make xv work again by removing and re-installing
> it. This didn't help for emacs, but adding a symbolic link in
> /usr/lib (to the wrong library !!!) made it work again.
> But I've been unable to get gnuplot working again, and
> this is one of my most essential tools.
>
> So what's the Arch way to solve this ?

Do a full system update and then rebuild any packages from the AUR.


> I find it extremely strange that updating a library
> removes the original - never seen this on any other
> distro. Nor is there any need to do this.

We only package the latest stable versions of software and so very 
rarely have multiple different versions of a library.