On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:50, Anders Johansson wrote:
No, no, no. That's not how compiling works.
If you were linking things statically then yes, packages would get the 3.5.1 libraries, but they don't. They are linked dynamically. Which means you get whatever version of the libraries you currently have installed. There is absolutely zero difference between an amarok compiled against 3.5.1 and one compiled against 3.5.3. This is called binary compatibility and is very important to the KDE project. If you install the 3.5.3 libraries you get the 3.5.3 bug fixes, totally and utterly regardless of what was used to compile the applications you have installed
Thanks for clearing that up. That is good news.
As a for instance, in the past when suse have released critical bug fix releases of kdebase or kdelibs through YOU, you don't see all the other 2^51 KDe packages in there as well, right?
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