On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 02:57:22AM -0500, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 07:03:23AM +0000, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Currently running Jessie with sysvinit/systemd-shim/cgmanager; thinking
> > about installing openrc.
> >
> > I've been poking at eudev/reading the documentation/...; it's supposed to
> > offer ABI compatability with systemd
>
> I'm sorry.
>
> What is ABI?
>
> :)

Application binary interface; if two libraries share an ABI, they can be
used interchangeably.
In other words, abi compatability tells us whether we need to recompile the
rdepends for libudev1 when we package eudev.

HTH,
Isaac Dunham