Re: apt-get

[David Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Huey (hui) wrote:
> 1) Nobody sane is running those older KDE/GNOME packages anyways. You
> generally are running one version or the other. I have yet to see anybody
> fully exploit the problems regarding multipule version of a package and
> name collisions.

In a testing environment, this is far from true.

Speaking in a *very* general manner, we're on RedHat 7.2 at work; the 
developers their desktops on the latest stable-ish version of KDE/Gnome 
that I compile and install onto NFS (mainly because the versions that 
ship with RH 7.2, well, suck).

We also keep various builds of Qt, GTK+, KDE, and Gnome lying around for 
version testing.  Actual production builds are performed against the RH 
7.2 libraries (because the delivered apps must run on 7.2, bugs and all).

This is hardly sane and, yeah, building/maintaining all this stuff 
bites.  But it gets the job done. <sigh>