On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 15:27 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
there are
lots of libraries where, for example, .so.6 would be a perfectly fine
replacement for .so.7, but the system doesn't know that.
I think the authors of these libraries screwed up. Namely, libudev and
libffi were both mistakes; for the latter, see
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-April/166357.html
for my opinion.