DLL vs Shared Library

[Daniel Carrera]

Tony Arnold wrote:
> And I believe the packging system developed by Ian Murdoch of Debian was
> designed explicitly to separate out libraries from applications into
> different packages. I think this was a stroke of genius as no-one had
> thought to do it like this before!

How is it different from RPM or BSD's ports?

Cheers,
Daniel.
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