From: Christian R. <me...@me...> - 2002-06-07 06:29:36
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fre 2002-06-07 klockan 04.52 skrev Nathan G. Grennan: > Redhat has made a mess out of the 1.0.0 rpms. The biggest change is > that all the mozilla directories have -1.0.0 appended to them. So > /usr/lib/mozilla becomes /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.0, /usr/include/mozilla > becomes /usr/include/mozilla-1.0.0, etc. I find this very annoying in > that all packages that depend on Mozilla must change and why do it in > the first place? I have no idea, but perhaps to be able to maintain binary compatibility? So if an app depends upon Mozilla 1.0.0, it wont stop working when another app needs gecko from Mozilla 1.1 in the future. > So you can concurrently install two versions of > Mozilla? You are still going to have a conflict between package names. Err, no. rpm handles multiple versions of the same package (with the same name) just fine, as long as the package itself is made parallell installable like the above, and has done so for as long as I can remember. Think kernel packages. > All around seems like a bad idea. The second major problem is that at > least the mozilla-devel rpm is missing about half the headers. So you > can't compile Galeon against it because Mozilla headers they do include > require other headers they don't include. This appears to be just bad > packaging, but hard to tell. You addressed this in another mail (it appearantly wasn't bad packaging). Christian |