[arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:54 PM,  <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 12:36:55AM +0200, Ionut Biru wrote:
>
>> you are focusing only on .so which is different but this schema will
>> work only if the package is split in lib, -dev, whatever as now, the
>> headers will conflict since it have the same name on the same
>> location.
>
> Not true. When a new version is installed, the
> headers are replaced, and the symlink from
> 'libfoo.so' is modified to the new version.

pacman doesn't deal in symlinks in this manner. I think your
understanding of WHAT a package is is a little off.