Some unreliable predictions for 2015

Posted Jan 16, 2015 13:55 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: Some unreliable predictions for 2015 by hitmark
Parent article: Some unreliable predictions for 2015

> Much of the problem goes away if just the package managers could tolerate to have multiple versions of the same lib installed. versioned sonames exist for a reason...

It's not that simple. Suppose a program is linked against library A which in turn is linked against libpng2, and that program is also linked against library B which in turn is linked against libpng3.

Now imagine the program gets from library A a pointer to a libpng structure, which it then passes to library B.