nate a écrit :
Try it out and see what happens.. since the version change seems pretty minor I wouldn't expect too much breakage .. Though to be on the safe side it's probably good to install it to another directory(/usr/local or something) and change the package name so it doesn't conflict.
When building your new programs just be sure that you point them to the other version of GTK via LD_LIBRARY_PATH CPPFLAGS etc..
I did quite a lot of researching and fiddling, and in the end, after weighing the pros and the cons... I guess I'll wait for CentOS 6 to build these new apps. Should be less than a year, if things go well :o)
After all, installing an enterprise-class distro only to fiddle around with the base packages doesn't make much sense... or else, I'd stick to Slackware ;o)
cheers,
Niki