-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/2013 07:15 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Vít Ondruch wrote: >> Sorry, this has nothing to do with FPC yet. RPM/YUM/DNF should >> first provide reasonable support. For example this issue [1] >> could take us closer as a first approximation. >> >> Vít >> >> >> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845247 > > Parallel-installing multiple versions of the same package is a > flawed idea from the onset, the only package we support it for is > the kernel (and that's a hack). I don't think it makes sense to try > to support it elsewhere. > > It would be much more productive to just package the latest version > of the library in Fedora (if necessary as an update) and make the > client packages work with that (if necessary in a grouped update). > This would be nice in a perfect world where all upstreams understand backwards-compatibility and proper API/ABI versioning. Unfortunately, we live in a world where even major players (like Google with v8 or anyone in the Ruby community) break compatibility constantly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlJf8RgACgkQeiVVYja6o6PuaQCfYRWcTHhPAq8Zny4pO1emDg3a f30AoIdIUBJaJ94atD08M38w0vMpvufy =8RDh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
