Bug 29106

Summary:	modules in /usr/lib/cairo avoids parallel installation of different versions
Product:	cairo	Reporter:	Dominique Leuenberger <dominique-freedesktop.org>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Carl Worth <cworth>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	cairo-bugs mailing list <cairo-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	1.9.12
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Dominique Leuenberger 2010-07-16 03:26:43 UTC

I suggest to version /usr/lib/cairo subfolder.

Due to the nature of shared libraries it might be that in the future two (or more) versions of cairo need to be installed in parallel. For this reason there are the soNUM bumps whenever an ABI break happens.

But having the modules in an unversioned directory avoids this from working properly, as different versions of cairo would potentially try to load the same modules.

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