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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] Utter frustration</H1>
+ <B>Anne Wilson</B>
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+ <I>Fri Nov 30 13:59:25 CET 2012</I>
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+On 30/11/12 12:26, Frank Griffin wrote:
+&gt;<i> On 11/30/2012 07:13 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Before doing all that, can you explain the significance of the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> suffixes here?
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> ls /usr/lib/ | grep powerdevil
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> libpowerdevilconfigcommonprivate.so.4@
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> libpowerdevilconfigcommonprivate.so.4.10.0*
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> libpowerdevilcore.so.0@ libpowerdevilcore.so.0.1.0*
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> libpowerdevilui.so.4@ libpowerdevilui.so.4.10.0*
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Library naming conventions use several, actual version, e. g.
+</I>&gt;<i> 4.10.0, major version, e. g. 4, and a generic name, e. g.
+</I>&gt;<i> libxxx.so. The last two are usually symlinked to the first.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> The major version usually signals an ABI difference or some other
+</I>&gt;<i> major difference, e. g. new function, from the previous version.
+</I>&gt;<i> The actual version changes whenever any change is made. Developers
+</I>&gt;<i> use the major version if their code is dependent on that major
+</I>&gt;<i> version, but just use the generic name if any version will do.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> In this way, the majority of packages using the library just ask
+</I>&gt;<i> for libxxx.so, and don't have to be rebuilt or have their makefiles
+</I>&gt;<i> or spec modified when the library changes. A few packages, which
+</I>&gt;<i> are dependent on a specific version, ask for libxxx.so.N (or
+</I>&gt;<i> higher), and these have to be changed when the major version they
+</I>&gt;<i> require is released. A very very few packages are dependent on the
+</I>&gt;<i> actual version, and these may have to change more often.
+</I>
+I assume the starred ones are actually in use - what's the
+significance of '@'? I'm not sure I've really understood this.
+
+Anne
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