#pragma comment (lib, ...)

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-10-11 16:23, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> Yeah, one of the poor design decisions of the early Redhat packaging
> system was to allow packages to depend on individual files, rather than
> packages. The result was a disastrous mess: some packages export
> different versions of the same file, and only a subset of them will
> work, leading to hair-tearing dependencies. Packages would step over
> each other's files, causing problems with each other and the rest of the
> system that depended on the same files, ad nauseum.

That sounds even worse, a terrible, terrible idea.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg