[techtalk] Library standardization?

[Amanda Knox]

A real newbie question :)

Is there any form of library standardization in progress? Seems like
every time I try to install something new, I get some kind of library
conflict. Either I don't have the standard library it needs, or the
development one, or something else. Tonight it took almost three hours
to acquire and install libraries for KICQ (the ICQ clone written for
KDE) using RH 6.0. One of the major problems was the need for two
different forms of JPEG libraries, written by two different groups. It
was very frustrating, and I ended up having to compile the source on my
own computer, instead of installing the RPM. 

Sooo... :)
Has there been any thought to making sense of the kazillions of
libraries? Maybe putting some of the features together into larger
libraries, or releasing the standard and development ones together? I
know this probably sounds really simplistic, but I don't know my apples
from my oranges yet :P

Hope someone has some answers :)

Amanda

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