mechanism to retain system library versions

[Neal Becker]

Florian Weimer wrote:

> On 12/18/2013 02:06 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
>> During the past few months, I've switched from building my software against a
>> bundled version of boost libraries, to building against the system boost
>> libs.
> 
> Is your software packaged in Fedora?

No, this is not intended for Fedora, or any external use.

> 
>> How do others solve this problem, or can anyone think of a solution?
> 
> For Boost, building packages on all the Fedora releases you want to
> support should work because Boost usually offers source-based backwards
> compatibility.
> 

So you're suggesting that I could have either:

1) find a non-critical system, update that to f20, rebuild software, before 
updating critical system

or

2) somehow build against f20 libs on an f19 system?