[aur-general] TU application: Laszlo Papp

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sat Aug 1 22:03:15 EDT 2009


Heiko Baums wrote:
> Particularly see the symlink thing in his PKGBUILD for the library. If
> he was a Gentoo user for more than a year - I was one for about 6 years
> -, he should know, that a library doesn't have to be symlinked to keep
> or get reverse dependencies compatible to updated libraries. 

I'll just point out that the library symlink in his PKGBUILD was the 
right type of symlink taht almost every library has on a system.

i.e. libfoo.so.0 -> libfoo.so

So it is not what I term a "stupid" symlink.

Allan





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