Re: [PATCH] fix /boot/loader for extended slices

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:17:16PM -0800, walt wrote:
> One reason the OpenBSD ports system is so frustrating is that they
> (apparently) reject the common practice of using symlinks on their
> libraries so that minor version numbers become irrelevant:  e.g.
> libfoo.so.3 -> libfoo.so.3.2.1

(a) There are no minor versions from the ELF point of view.
(b) Most library vendors completely fail to understand ABI stability.

We solve (a) by not using minor numbers and NetBSD's pkgsrc solved (b)
by assigning major versions themselve for packages which fail to understand
the issues.

Joerg