On 9/11/15, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I get the feeling this is related to Fedora not aggressively using
versioned package names for libraries, or at least enabling some kind
parallel installing capability. SUSE used to follow a policy similar to our
current one, but switched due to the insanity and impracticality. Mageia
also uses a policy almost identical to SUSE's.
For an example, here's SUSE's policy:
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Shared_library_packaging_policy
Put it bluntly, OpenSUSE does this like a mess, with introducing more
and more packages instead of solving the problem. Initially copying
the idea from Debian, introducing libfoo2, libbar3, or whatever is
silly as well.
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Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng
http://awk.io