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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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