Re: parallel-install desktop packages

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com> writes:
> 
> So, now for the questions.  Should we attempt to make these capable of
> being installed in parallel with their GNOME 1 counterparts?  If so, how
> do we go about doing that?  Do we simply install into another prefix? 
> How do we get people a new GNOME_PATH, which they'll likely need if
> things are in a different prefix?  What other options do we have for
> making parallel-installable packages?  Thanks,

The way we have gdm set up on Red Hat, you could install to /opt, then
have a gdm session that added the /opt stuff to PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
etc. and set GNOME_PATH.

Havoc