Compat Libraries (was Re: libcurl.so.2) [mpeters at mac.com]

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 01:02:53 +0000, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> Maybe "Fedora Extras" is the right place for these packages, but I
> don't know, packages in "Extras" should link against current shared
> libraries, and extras maintaining compat-* packages may result in some
> maintainers using those instead of rebuilding/patching when needed.

Take a look at the Terminology page on the fedora website. This sounds
like something the Fedora Alternatives namespace is suppose to cover
somewhere along the line.

-jef