[25391] in Athena Bugs
Re: athena-gal does not provide "gal"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Jan 2 12:42:21 2004
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:42:06 -0500
In-Reply-To: <1073065245.32657.68.camel@error-messages.mit.edu> (Greg
Hudson's message of "Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:40:46 -0500")
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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.
It's not the ABI that I'm worried about -- it's the athena-local
modifications. For example, what about the athena mods to gconfd?
-derek
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