On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:13:32PM -0800, Jim Gettys wrote: > My point is that often, in these large systems, you need both > systems in parallel, simultaneously, both for developers and users. > You can't just say: "we'll only have one version of nautilus installed > at once", for example; people, particularly on shared systems will need > both versions available simultaneously. > With advance planning, such projects can mitigate, but not eliminate > these problems. Shared libraries have both helped and hurt > this situation.... > And I think Debian owes the KDE packaging folks some guidance on > if not /opt, then where.... The party insisting here that KDE3 should be stowed in /opt is not one of the "KDE packaging folks". For that matter, Eray isn't listed as the maintainer on any package that links against Qt... Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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