DLL vs Shared Library

[Tony Arnold]

Daniel Carrera 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?

I don't know. I'm not familiar with these. I was just under the
impression that Debian did it first.

Regards,
Tony.
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