On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:58:29AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > 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 ... The GIMP developers do not prevent that. You can easily install multiple versions of GIMP in their own <path>/$appname-$version. GIMP is acutally better than most, because it also uses a versioned directory in $HOME/.gimp-X.Y for preferences, so a new install does not fubar the preferences of an old install & vica-verca. It is simply that the Fedora policy is to always install apps into a fixed /usr location, and not /opt/$appname-$version or anything like that. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
