Steve Morris wrote:
> Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> Steve Morris wrote:
>>> Ok, I'll let things rest, I could continue on ad infinitum here, I
>>> guess I will just have to accept that Mandriva/Linux does things in a
>>> way that just makes no logical sense to me.
>>
>> Did you see my reply dated 15:47? I tried to explain things as clearly
>> as possible. I think you should be able to follow it and understand
>> why things are done the way they are.
>>
>> Col
>>
> I'm referring to runtime version resolution as opposed to statically
> linked modules in the situation where it is believed the package cannot
> run with the current module version.

As should be clear by now, we are not talking about version resolution
but alternative resolution.

The Nvidia libGL.so.1 is not newer or older than the Mesa one, it's an
alternative.

If they were different versions we'd have to compile every single GL app
in the distro specifically for Mesa and three Nvidia versions... this is
clearly stupid and the current system of using alternatives works very
well :)

Col

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