>> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello, Hi, > I've got an idle question about GNOME2. As I understand it, > Gnome upstream is designed so that versions 1 and 2 can be > installed simultaneously. True? Only libraries. > Are the debian packages also designed to allow Gnome 1 and Gnome 2 be > simultaneously installed? Clearly, there is no problem for a library > that only exists in Gnome 1 or in Gnome 2. If a library changes > SONAME from 1->2, there would be no problem with the library runtime > package. Will the -dev packages be simultaneously installable? For -dev packages : Include files are installed in /usr/include/package_name-1.0 for Gnome 1 and in /usr/include/package_name-2.0 for Gnome 2 For lib packages : Nothing change for Gnome 1 and libraries are called /usr/lib/package-name-2.0 In both case we can install Gnome 1 and Gnome 2 without problems. > What about the application packages, e.g. sawfish? The problem is here, applications have the same name, so sawfish2 should conflict with sawfish. Christian
