In article <20070814124728.GB743@colwyn.zhadum.org.uk> Matthias wrote:
: On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 01:10:46PM +0200, Dieter Baron wrote:
: > > We've had incompatible packages (usually different versions)
: > > sitting side by side in pkgsrc for a long time. There are
: > > various reasons for this (differences in database layout with
: > > postgresql and aide), different licences (coda, probably others),
: > > different maintainers, etc
: > 
: >   Yes, but none of those are libraries.

: That is not true. We support installing GTK+ 1.x and 2.x or
: QT 3.x and QT 4.x at the same time.

  They are not incompatible: You can have both gtk1 and gtk2 installed
at the same time.  I said:

>   That only works well if versions 6 & 7 can be installed
> simultaneously.  Is that the case?  Or do we have to make that
> possible within pkgsrc?

  If we can have Mesa 6 and Mesa 7 installed at the same time,
everything's fine.

					yours,
					dillo