[csw-maintainers] An idea for a shared libraries policy

[Roger Håkansson]

On 2010-09-29 20:47, Philip Brown wrote:
> On 9/29/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski<maciej at opencsw.org>  wrote:
>>
>> Do we have instances in which we package multiple version of the same
>> dynamically loaded object into one package?  I think not, but if we
>> had, they could be separated as well.
>
> not to my memory.
> The "include older binary versions" issue, usually (possibly ONLY)
> comes up for traditional shared libraries only.
>

Well, imagemagick actually have both old shared libraries plus other 
dynamically loaded objects, however those objects are only loaded by the 
libraries and not by external applications (at least as far as I know).