On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 11:58 -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 ... Side-by-side means into the same prefix. You can only have one gimp version installed into the /usr prefix, you're free to install a different one into /opt/gimp-x.y or somewhere into your home if you're an ordinary user. Nils -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nils@xxxxxxxxxx nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
