[arch-general] The libgmp update

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Mar 28 00:21:51 CET 2010


On 28/03/10 08:19, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Samstag, 27. März 2010 23:08:08 schrieb Hilton Medeiros:
>> Hello,
>>
>> just to confirm, all the packages linked against the new libgmp should
>> follow 'coreutils' example and use 'gmp>=5.0', right?
>> I just saw that gnunet didn't.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hilton
>
> No, it's the other way round. Using versioned deps is just wrong.
>

Agreed.  Not having it means you can not do "pacman -Sy gnunet" which 
would update gmp as a side effect if using a versed dep and cause havok 
to the rest of your system.  Not having it means only gnunet would be 
affected.


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