Re: Dependency libraries and ABI

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Mike Kestner <mkestner speakeasy net> writes:
> On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 11:32, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > That is, if a program is linked to the shared libraries
> > 
> >  libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> 
> >    This means that libgtk-2.0.so.0 
> 
> I wish it were the latter...
> 
> Is there a technical reason why the platform name needs to be mangled
> into the so target for gtk and gdk? 

So you can install the non-X backends such as framebuffer while still
running GNOME, for example.

Havoc