Re: Dependency problems on upgrade to GNOME-2 packages

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 13:18, Toralf Lund wrote:
>
> > Well, obviously necessary if you want to use the new libs. However, it
> > seems to me that the new and old ones will live happily together in
> most
> > cases, so that existing binaries will indeed run (but without the new
> > features, obviously) - and that's the way it ought to be. If I wanted
> an
> > OS where I needed to new install new applications after every upgrade,
> I
> > would look elsewhere, if you know what I mean.
> >
> > I can't find any package providing the old panel-applet libs, however,
> > except for gnome-core, which will be removed by the upgrade.
>
> Almost all of the old gnome-libs will sit happily alongside new ones
> (certainly if you use GNOMEhide versions anyway, which have been
> parallel installable for longer than most other versions). However, one
> or two core desktop binaries will not. Notably the panel and nautilus.
>
> In any case, the panel has changed much for the better, and almost all
> your favourite applets have been ported. I can't imagine why you'd want
> to run any of the old ones :)
Because I've made them myself?

Life would be a lot easier if I could test the new panel and upgrade 
everywhere before I had to start thinking about porting applets.

- Toralf