Also, mismatch libraries (errors like "depends on 2.5 but 2.4 will be installed") cause a major headache. Like I said before, /opt is the way to go. Cheers.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Art Alexion</b> <<a href="mailto:art.alexion@verizon.net">art.alexion@verizon.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 21:11, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:<br>> At least one of these is going to break binary compatibility with 2/3 of<br>> the packages on your system, because some funky library is built in a way
<br>> that doesn't allow concurrent installations of version X and version Y of<br>> the lib, so to install the next version of some dependency five layers<br>> down, you've got to rebuild 700 tarballs to keep everything working.
<br><br>You forgot to mention that sometimes a dependency just won't install because<br>it conflicts with a library or other dependency of other apps already<br>installled. It is not just a matter of finding the dependencies, but also
<br>making sure they are compatible with existing software.<br><br>Unlike apt, RPMs, though binary often presented this problem.<br><br>The nice thing, Donn, is that the "big apps" like Firefox and OpenOffice, are
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