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Date:      Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:28:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        mi@aldan.algebra.com
Cc:        Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za>, chuckr@mat.net, jdp@polstra.com, asmodai@wxs.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904091027230.256-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199904091606.MAA61019@misha.cisco.com>

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> I'd like to voice my opposition to this. While it maybe an acceptable
> way to work around poor (or non-existant) release engineering of SOME
> software, making this a rule may defeat one of the major purposes of
> shared libraries: drop-in replacement. Think of libXaw3d, for example.
> What's wrong with different filenames for different libs?

Do you think that the Gnome libs are going to stand still long enough for
someone (you) to write a drop in replacement?  Besides, most of the
functionality that libXaw3d provides over libXaw is provided by Gtk+
themes.

- alex



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