Re: RFC: Soname in rpm name

["Sean" <seanlkml sympatico ca>]

On Mon, January 24, 2005 7:33 pm, Jeff Spaleta said:

> no.. you missed my point... expiring because nothing depends on them
> is NOT what im talking about.  I'm talking about expiring a package
> because the package author is no longer maintaining that version of
> the library regardless of whether an externally built application from
> somewhere else are still using that version of the library.  If i
> haven't made my point clear enough, I apologize. Your leaf detection
> mechanism is not going to address this issue.
>

Jeff,

Why not propose a solution that does what you want instead of imposing
this artificial barrier on others trying to solve different problems?

Sean