Old Flex version in FC5?
Benjamin Thery
benjamin.thery at bull.net
Fri May 5 13:18:40 UTC 2006
Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 09:30 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>> Probably explains why Benjamin noticed other distros with 2 flex
>> packages (one old, one new). Perhaps someone could review possibilities
>> of dually-installed flex pkgs, and submit the "new" one to Extras. (:
>
> Does Debian install them parallel installable?
Doesn't seem so.
The files overwrite each others:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=flex-old&version=unstable&arch=i386
> I remember this being discussed before in an Extras review - where
> someone was submitting a package that needed the new flex.
>
> If I remember, the problem was that the new flex would have to be
> installed in such a way that it was never used by mistake, and no one
> had submitted a package yet. The package ended up being patched to not
> need the new flex, and nothing more came of it.
>
> How many software packages out there do not build on Fedora Core for
> lack of the new flex?
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