John Ellson <ellson <at> research.att.com> writes: > These tools need extra care when updating. Absolutely. Would there be interest in having a flex-reentrant (based on 2.5.33) package in Extras (in parallel with existing flex) that would install itself in /opt/flex, as per: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES With such approach, both pieces of software could exist on the system at the same time without, with the old, proven flex being the default. The reentrant flex would be completely invisible in terms of binary paths, libraries, man pages etc., until explicity referenced by other software needing this kind of functionality. PS. I'm aware that /opt isn't the most popular choice (*cough* is completely against policy *cough*) for Fedora [Extras] packages, but in this particular case it may give us some optional (pun intended :-) functionality that we otherwise wouldn't have. -- Bojan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
