I explained it because your example makes me think you don't understand how and where packages are installed. Libraries are installed independently, but your ex

I explained it because your example makes me think you don't understand how and where packages are installed. Libraries are installed independently, but your example looks like the library thelib.so is installed inside pkgA which is only related to thelib.so because pkgA is the first package that depends on thelib.so, but this is incorrect, instead you'd have: /System/Index/lib/thelib.so -> /Programs/thelib/1.0/thelib.so And /Programs/pkgA/lib/thelib.so would never exist at all.