On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:38, Jim Smith wrote:
You cannot have your cake and eat it.
That's just an unfortunate design decision of RPM and package conventions that you can't install a new/different version without clobbering your old one. Most applications wouldn't really care if you had multiple versions installed. At least it has been worked around with the kernel...
What will happen when the stuff in the Fedoralized repo begins to churn out FC5 stuff? If you want fedora stick to fedora. If you want a stable enterprise distro go for RHEL/CentOS.
Maybe someday a distribution will figure out that users really want a stable OS along with current apps instead of bundling new device drivers along with version-level desktop app updates. Until then, or at least until packaging lets you install new/expermental versions alongside your well-tested working application, people will continue to do strange and desperate things...