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From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
wrote:

> Not sure about how it can be used in distributions, but it does not hurt
> to provide the config option.
> Are you going to link applications against a fixed DPDK version for
> every libraries?
>

Kind of yes - we can still update "inside" a major version e.g. stable
releases just fine.
That helps a lot transitioning from one to the next release.

I have an RFC patch for the Debian packaging making use of it this function
that we will likely refresh and pick up on our next merge of a DPDK version.
And I already heard that even other downstreams are using it to simplify
their dependencies.

Applied, thanks
>

Thanks !


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Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd