[Mageia-discuss] No USB with VirtualBox on Mageia?
andre999
andr55 at laposte.net
Tue Jun 7 14:16:16 CEST 2011
Michael Scherer a écrit :
>
> Le lundi 06 juin 2011 à 12:19 +0100, Maurice Batey a écrit :
>> On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:41:09 +0300, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>>
>>> (The $1000 question, what is any distro shipping only python 2.7 gonna
>>> do about this mismatch? Nothing actually, since they have no control
>>> on packages built by upstream).
>>
>> So the answer to my question ("What is Mageia going to do about this
>> mismatch?") is: "Nothing"?
>
> "ask you to see with Oracle as they do not wish us to modify their
> software"
>
> It is proprietary software, the copyright holder explicitly tell "we are
> the only one who can modify and fix it, others cannot", so that's rather
> clear to me that they are the ones to contact.
A question for the expert :
Is it possible to make symbolic links that will compensate for the different versions of python
(2.7 and 2.6), like seems to be done on Mandriva with minor version differences of perl ?
Or some adaptation of requires/provides in the spec files ?
--
André
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