Subject: Re: Shared object not found - but all dependencies are ok ?!
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/13/2005 20:40:49
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> 
> > What exatcly are "open-ended dependencies"?
> 
> Dependencies that only say the minimum version needed, but don't list the
> maximum. Using your example: your snx101view requires the open-ended
> imlib>=1.9.14nb5. This matches 1.9.14nb7 which provided
> libgdk_imlib.so.1.9.14, but you needed libgdk_imlib.so.10.

There is no way to list the maximum, because you don't know which will be
the first incompatible version, right?

Bye	Pavel