[systemd-devel] [PATCH] buildsys: allow building without libnotify

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 15:50, Matthias Clasen
<matthias.clasen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org> wrote:
>
>>> libnotify 0.7 does not require gtk at all.
>>
>> Hmm, whatever it is, there is an incompatible change, and the old an
>> the new version can not be installed in parallel, isn't it?
>>
>> And all others besides Fedora are stuck with the old version which
>> does not work with the code in systemd, right?
>>
>
> Yes.
> There's an area of diminishing returns when making things parallel
> installable. You don't want teeny, unstable libraries to grow parallel
> versions, really. In this case,
> we decided for one-time porting pain.

Sure no problem, it's just that things got a bit fast now. Seems
everybody woke up now and gets old stuff cleaned up. :)

> Of course, distributions may still decide the other way, and introduce
> a libnotify06 package...

Sure, that's the default for Debian/Ubuntu/SUSE, to have rpm names for
libs with the so version:
  libnotify-devel-0.6.0-1.2.x86_64
  libnotify1-0.6.0-1.2.x86_64
  libnotify-tools-0.6.0-1.2.x86_64

I guess the so version is now 2? But the problem remains that the
devel package has conflicting files then. :)

Kay