On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:35:54AM +0000, alberto hernando wrote:

> Let's say that I have gtk+-2.8.10 installed, and I want to install a
> new package that requires gtk+-2.8.12. Can I just install this last
> version and expect everything to work?

Yes.  The GTK+ team are outstandingly good at preserving backward
compatibility.  I have done many upgrades of GTK+-2.4.x,2.6.x,2.8.x
(and also glib, atk, pango) without problems.  I've never had to
uninstall the old version and never had to recompile anything.

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty 
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