On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:24:48 -0700 Joe Peterson <lava...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Right. Plus, if the linker *did* consult the filename, imagine what > would happen if someone renamed the file (even by accident) and > changed the version? The parser should not be able to be so easily > fooled - could cause great confusion and or nasty and weird bugs - > seems very fragile to me. Having the version *in* the file is much > safer, since monkeying with that would require editing it the file, > rather than renaming it.
You could use the same absurd argument to say that PN and PV shouldn't be in the filename... -- Ciaran McCreesh
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