> Actually my plan is to try to have only one HDF4 library without > embedded netcdf: packages needing netcdf can link to the netcdf > library. This is the same way hdf4 is packaged in Fedora.
Great, this would make things a lot easier, I guess. All the packages depending on libhdf4-0-alt would need to change their dependencies then -- do you need help organizing this? > I'd like to test this approach locally after the netcdf transition. Can you elaborate? What transition?