On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:58:29AM -0400, Genes MailLists 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 ...
The GIMP developers do not prevent that. You can easily install
multiple versions of GIMP in their own <path>/$appname-$version.
GIMP is acutally better than most, because it also uses a versioned
directory in $HOME/.gimp-X.Y for preferences, so a new install
does not fubar the preferences of an old install & vica-verca.
It is simply that the Fedora policy is to always install apps
into a fixed /usr location, and not /opt/$appname-$version or
anything like that.
Daniel
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