Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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...
No...! They are needed because: 1) versions of the *content*, not the *format* are needed for uniqueness 2) it makes sense to have these in the filename, but not internal meta-data
