Leaving? (cont'd)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 7/31/06, Rahul <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> 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.
>
> Rahul
>
I wasn't suggesting parallel installs exactly, more like replaceable
installs (for lack of a better word) , either or, the diff. names
would be for the sake of rpm and yum.

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