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On 08/25/2011 12:00 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> 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 ...
> That only helps if you are the system administrator of the system and
> if you know about alternatives.  Ordinary users are at mercy of either
> their system administrator, or the distribution author.
>    Mirek

  If an app is installable in its own area - it can just as well be
/home/foo/ ... just put link (or script or whatever is needed) to have
the app know where its base is).