Re: Precedence for shadowing a monolithic Fedora package?
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:35:46 +0200, Nicolas wrote:
Using alternatives seems appropriate, but you can also rename the
binary and the .desktop file so you can have a completely parallele
installable version.
Conflicting and Obsoleting fedora maintained packages have be avoided.
Nah, explicit Conflicts are fine in that case.
audacity vs. audacity-freeworld is one example.
Users need to choose between either one.
Relocating an application and all its files it may read/write just
to make it parallel-installable with another build of the same/older/newer
application is just not worth the extra effort. And if you don't relocate
or rename config/run-time files, there's the risk that this causes
side-effects since one app is built with more features than the other
one or is a different version even.