>>> On 5/3/2016 at 03:32 PM, R P Herrold <[email protected]> wrote: 
> On Tue, 3 May 2016, Mark Post wrote:
> 
>> Well, we can't include what IBM doesn't provide us for
>> inclusion.  I never even heard of this RPM until today.
> ... [not a] very good option since so few people read the
>> release notes or pop-ups.
> 
> it seems to be the topic of a later supplementation to that SP
> 
> https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-ou-20160156-1.html

That looks like something completely different relating to libica2-devel on the 
SDK.

> More troubling were all the stray (and conflicting) versions
> installed -- the package manager (RPM) should have (and absent
> someone 'messing with it' will) remove obsolete prior versions

If you look closely, all those packages are different names, not just versions. 
 There were designed that way to enable them all to be installed concurrently 
and not interfere with each other.  That's not normally necessary, but it is at 
times needed.


Mark Post

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