Re: [GnomeSword-developers] gecko issues

[Karl K. <ka...@kl...>]

JD <jd...@gm...> writes:
> So, when you install another xulrunner-devel version,
> you will clobber  /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxul.pc

Unless one builds the new version of xulrunner on one's own,
irrespective of proper package management, how does package management
sanity checking allow the 2nd instance of a package to be installed,
considering that "don't clobber other packages' files" is surely a
"ground zero" sort of requirement of sane package management?

That's what package management is *for*.  The idea that a new xulrunner
can run willy-nilly over a previous version's pkgconfig details without
making the whole system choke is nonsense.

BTW...by no means whatsoever should filesystem pathnames to preferred
libs be engraved in binaries.  Some of you may recall that during the
days of F7, Deji actually had to stop building then-GnomeSword against
FF's mozembed because the Fedora folks engraved its lib dir's version
stamp in the directory name itself -- upgrade FF, and GnomeSword stopped
working.  This caused no end of grief.  Do not take us down that road
again, please.

--karl