gimp

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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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