On 24 March 2011 11:56, Olivier Blin <[email protected]> wrote: > nicolas vigier <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Robert Xu wrote: >> >>> >>> As I reiterate, Trinity does not interfere with KDE4 in any way, if >>> you keep /opt/kde3 >> >> Are you sure ? >> >> For libs installed in /opt/kde3/lib, rpm find-provides will add the >> provides for the libs on the packages. When an other package require >> this library, it will give the choice to install the Trinity package and >> some people will do it. >> >> Then there is two options : >> - /opt/kde3/lib is not in ld.so.conf, and the programs using this lib >> will not run >> - /opt/kde3/lib is in ld.so.conf, so the programs using this lib will >> run, but we can have two versions of the lib installed, one in /usr/lib >> and one in /opt/kde3/lib, and we don't know which one will be used, so >> we can see various strange problems. > > This should not be an issue if the libraries from Trinity and KDE4 have > different majors > > -- > Olivier Blin - blino >
No guarantees on that point... you never know when the major of a lib is going to change, and there're hundreds of libs in a DE... -- Ahmad Samir
