Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> This approach never works well with Red Hat.  Unless you really know
> what you're doing, installing stuff by hand will result in eventual
> system instability, and random problems.  I do not recommend that anyone
> running Red Hat attempt to install any system-level software by hand.
> At the minimum any stuff should be installed via RPM, and only if the
> installed package is built properly.

This won't cause problems in this particular case.

Their gdbm-1.8.0 RPM installs libgdbm.so.2, gdbm-1.8.3 installs
libgdbm.so.3, so they're separated. The gdbm maintainers BTW think it's
ok to bump just the patchlevel even if the ABI changes... "the API is
unchanged". Clueless.

-- 
Matthias Andree


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