[Mageia-discuss] No USB with VirtualBox on Mageia?

[Michael Scherer]

Le mardi 07 juin 2011 à 08:16 -0400, andre999 a écrit :
> 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 ?

No. there is no ABI guarantee on python version 2.X, and AFAIK, it was
implemented only for 3.2 ( or that's what I understood, antoine will
correct me if I am wrong ).

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Michael Scherer