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

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 16:22:15 schreef Ahmad Samir:
> On 24 March 2011 11:56, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > --
> > Olivier Blin - blino
> 
> No guarantees on that point... you never know when the major of a lib
> is going to change, and there're hundreds of libs in a DE...

It is a lot of work, but i have no qualms if the people maintain both qt3 and 
TDE and can guarantee no breakage at any point in time, and a TDE policy that 
needs to be welltested before introducing.

if possible, also a priority preference (like it was done with systemd)