wow, I didn't realize the risk, but anyway, galeon and mozilla
are working at the moment. :)

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 03:51:51PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
:Jun Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
:> a dirty solution is to 'rpm -i libpng3-1.2.0xxx' instead of 
:> 'rpm -Uhv libpng3-1.2.0xxx'.
:
:This is not dirty, the lib-policy is meant so that you can install
:different versions of a library.
:
:Now, this leads to problems when a binary uses libpng and also uses
:another library which itself uses libpng, when the binary and the library
:were compiled against different major versions of libpng (namely 2 and 3).
:Apparently, at dynamic linkage time, symbols will mess, and it can
:segfault or incorrectly display images.
:
:But this was already extensively discussed here :-).
:
:
:For example on my machine I have multiple versions of a few libs but it
:works without a problem.
:
:libdb3.2-3.2.9-3mdk
:libdb3.3-3.3.11-5mdk
:
:libglib1.2-1.2.10-4mdk
:libglib2-1.3.6-2mdk
:
:libparted2-1.4.13-2mdk
:libparted1.4-1.4.20-2mdk
:
:
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:Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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