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 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
