[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

[Olivier Blin]

nicolas vigier <boklm at 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

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Olivier Blin - blino