[25390] in Athena Bugs
Re: athena-gal does not provide "gal"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jan 2 12:40:54 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:40:46 -0500
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On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 12:21, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > I will add the native gal, bonobo, and gnome-print packages to the
> > release; they are only about 6MB total.
>
> Wont this cause a conflict between the Athena versions of these
> packages and the RH-distributed versions? What if an application
> links against the wrong version of the library?
We already do this with a dozen other GNOME libraries. It doesn't cause
a problem. It doesn't matter what library version an application links
against; the ABIs are the same whether we build it or they build it.
