RPM and GEMS conflict of interest

[Gilles Dubreuil]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 22:13 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> Gilles Dubreuil wrote, at 06/24/2010 08:57 PM +9:00:
> >
> > I understand and respect the "not encouraged" to deploy several versions
> > of a same package.
> > Although technically it works like in the compat libs or many other
> > packages like opensslX and many others apps for legacy dependencies.
> >
> > Therefore having two version of JVM or JDK for instance should never be
> > allowed from an RPM point of view? And we we would have to rely on using
> > "alternatives" to create symbolic links and stub config files?
> 
> Again "you can just do the thing if you try" and "it is not supported or is against
> Fedora's policy" is quite a different thing.
> 
> >
> > Sorry to insist but isn't up to the user/sysadmin to decide what to
> > install on the box? And be able to simply deploy concurrent versions of
> > libraries?
> >
> 
> This is no longer an issue which should be talked on ruby-sig. Please
> bring further discussion on devel or packaging list.
> 
> Mamoru

No worries
Thanks

Gil