On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury at shurup.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 11:09 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> I think this misses the point that they can't be compatible for the >> common case where RF wants to have a newer version of something that >> in turn needs newer supporting libraries. > > They certainly can, read libcompatXXX... Isn't that just for shared C libs? What about perl/python/java/php, etc. where the new app you want needs supporting versions of things that will break the older packages you want to keep? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com