Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 16:22:15 schreef Ahmad Samir: > On 24 March 2011 11:56, Olivier Blin <mag...@blino.org> wrote: > > nicolas vigier <bo...@mars-attacks.org> 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...
It is a lot of work, but i have no qualms if the people maintain both qt3 and TDE and can guarantee no breakage at any point in time, and a TDE policy that needs to be welltested before introducing. if possible, also a priority preference (like it was done with systemd)