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[Miloslav Trmač]

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