Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable

[Andrew Haley]

On 02/16/2015 04:17 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> I don't buy this argument wrt. Fedora.
> 
> Fedora is a rapid moving, forward looking distro, in which such 
> regressions should be fixed and not be worked around by compat-libs.

That rather assumes that the only use for Fedora libraries is running
programs that are part of Fedora rather than programs that a user
installs from elsewhere.  While this may be true, it's not necessarily
a good thing.

Andrew.