Fwd: question about library conflicts

[John Leimon <jleimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From:	John Leimon <jleimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:53:34 -0700 (PDT)

Greetings,

Let's say I have a program 'A' that depends on library
'L' version 1.0. The filename for the library is
libL-1.0.so. I decide to install program B which
requires version 2.0 of library L. This filename is
libL-2.0.so. After upgrading library L to version 2.0
program A no longer starts because it cannot find
libL-1.0.so. Would it be ok to make a symlink of
libL-1.0.so to point to libL-2.0.so so that programs
looking for the older version could use the newer
version?

Thanks,
John

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