On 08/25/2011 10:28 AM, Nils Philippsen wrote: > As well, installing both stable versions side-by-side isn't an option as > you can't install them into the same prefix: the libraries have the same > SONAME, the new ones are expected to be ABI compatible. Therefore I > don't see a real alternative to rebasing to 2.8 in stable Fedora > releases when it finally is available, after thoroughly testing it of > course I really wish developers would not do that - every app should be installable in <path>/app-name-version - and then we use something like the alternates system (soft links) to get the version we want to run ... we should require this of every app in my view ... -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel