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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]
From:       Herbert Xu <herbert () gondor ! apana ! org ! au>
Date:       2002-01-10 21:10:35
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Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:

> There's nothing wrong with having libfoo-dev require libpng3 and bar
> require libqt which needs libpng2; and it's completely reasonable to
> expect to be able to build programs based on libfoo or libqt on a single
> system without having to run apt-get in the meantime.

...

> It'd be nicer, though, if it failed to link at all, assuming it's never
> going to work. Is there any way to achieve this?

Not exactly.  But if all the -dev packages did what they were supposed to
do and depended on the -dev packages of the libpng[23]-dev respectively,
then you won't be able to have both of them installed at the same time.
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