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

Thu Mar 24 20:40:15 CET 2011

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)
+