Severn Beta2

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 13:53, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 18 August 2003 08:42, Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:
> > but I would think, for example:
> > RHL9 ships gnome-thinger-0.6.1
> > RHL9 Eratta ships gnome-thinger-0.6.2
> > XD2 ships gnome-thinger-0.7.9
> > RHL Severn ships gnome-thinger 0.8.2
> >
> > it should be obvious that the ximian package is older and should be
> > replaced (or if it is newer.. than it should be left...).  Maybe this
> > is a simplistic example though...
> 
> The problem with this example, how can Red Hat be assured that Ximian's 
> gnome-thinger package puts all the files in the correct places, and 
> works with the rest of the gnome packages that Red Hat includes.  They 
> can't assure this, so they can't assume that it'll work, or users will 
> end up w/ broken setups and be quite pissed.

Or that the ABI/API between gnome-thinger 0.8.2 and 0.7.2 are
compatible. Many times they are not so you definately end up with a non
working environment.

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