Software management: Call for RFEs results!

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 10/16/2013 07:15 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 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).
> 

This would be nice in a perfect world where all upstreams understand
backwards-compatibility and proper API/ABI versioning. Unfortunately,
we live in a world where even major players (like Google with v8 or
anyone in the Ruby community) break compatibility constantly.
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