Software management: Call for RFEs results!

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 10/17/2013 09:15 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 17.10.2013 01:15, Kevin Kofler napsal(a):
>> Vít Ondruch wrote:
>>> Sorry, this has nothing to do with FPC yet. RPM/YUM/DNF should first
>>> provide reasonable support. For example this issue [1] could take us
>>> closer as a first approximation.
>>>
>>> Vít
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845247
>> Parallel-installing multiple versions of the same package is a flawed
>> idea
>> from the onset, the only package we support it for is the kernel (and
>> that's
>> a hack). I don't think it makes sense to try to support it elsewhere.
>>
>> It would be much more productive to just package the latest version of
>> the
>> library in Fedora (if necessary as an update) and make the client
>> packages
>> work with that (if necessary in a grouped update).
>>
>>          Kevin Kofler
>>
>
> It is interesting to see such response from somebody who appears to be
> maintainer of Qt. Don't we ship 3 parallel installable version of Qt?
>
> To be honest, the Kernel is the last package, which should be paraller
> installable, since you can run just one kernel at time.
>

Yeah, admins will love that, when after updating the kernel the machine 
won't boot with the new one and there is no easy way to switch to the 
old one...

--J.

>
>
> Vít