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