On Monday 31 July 2006 11:27, Rahul wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: > >> From my admittedly limited understanding of the problem, this seems to > > > > be little more than a programming problem. The parameters that would > > cause breakage seem to be known by you guy. RPM supports the use of > > post and pre scripts, can't these be used to go around this problme? > > > > If not, why not do parallel releases. I seem to remember this being > > done for at least gstreamer. have the xorg packages, and parallel > > xorg71 packages. Those who need the 7.1 updates, can switch over to > > xorg71, the rest of us will continue as normal, and hopefully, the > > entire issue will be resolved by FC6. > > Gstreamer was designed to be parallely installable while Xorg is not. > Having multiple versions in this is going to require major hacks. Not > really feasible. I have done that before with XFree. It was not that difficult (except that XFree installed some stuff outside its root directory, in /etc). I hope that it is still feasible with Xorg. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
