<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Who will review the new packages of these multiple versions? If we don't review it I think it's horrible to carry obsolete stuffs. </div><div><br></div><div>Maintaining several version of the same library is not easy as you think, basically once a developer wants to install version X while then another people want to deploy things based on version Y, how to crack this nut? You can't just care about runtime. </div><div><br></div><div>And, not all upstream use symbol versioning, and I don't think enforcing this could bring in any improvement for some upstream as they even don't care about this. </div><div><br></div><div>I only see Gentoo and it's derivatives give users choice to install different versions they want, but Gentoo has different concept while Fedora releases precompiled binaries, you can't control this actually. </div>
<br><br>-- <br><br>Yours sincerely,<br>Christopher Meng<br><br><a href="http://cicku.me" target="_blank">http://cicku.me</a><br>