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

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:07:41PM +0000, Pierre Chapuis wrote:
> Le Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:29:48 +0100,
> fons at kokkinizita.net a écrit :
> 
> > *** There is no conflict. *** Pacman can forget
> > about and even delete the package that supplied
> > the old version. It just *should not remove the
> > old library itself*.
> 
> And you end up with .so files not tracked by Pacman in your filesystem?
> Imagine what will happen to a 2 year-old installation...

The worst that can happen is that you have number 
of old *.so that no app uses anymore. They don't
harm at all, and they don't get in the way of
anything new. An update of a library replaces the
symlink from the unversioned name, so nothing you
do locally will ever refer to the old libs. Any
binary updates will use the new ones as well. 
So you have to clean up every now and then if
the disk space is critical. It's  much less a
nuisance than seeing your system broken just by
installing one small trivial app that happened
to require a new library version.

Ciao,

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FA

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