On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Charles A Edwards <eslrahc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> To my understanding installing 'emelfm2' (release and SVN) in both >> /usr and /usr/local (or whatever else) is not a viable solution. > > The only issue is that whichever is listed 1st in Path > will be invoked Unless you use the full path when invoking > /usr/bin/emelfm2, /usr/local/emelfm2 /whatever/emelfm2 etc. > Yes, from a maintainer's POV this is a bit problematic. > Just for fun last night I built an rpm for emelfm2 using > > prefix=/home/charles/emelfm2-svn > and for post/postun I used > > %post > ln -s /home/charles/emelfm2-svn/bin/emelfm2 /usr/bin/emelfm2-svn > > %postun > rm -f /usr/bin/emelfm2-svn > > If I invoke with emelfm2 my /usr/bin install is launched if I > invoke with emelfm2-svn my /home/charles install is launched. > I can launch/run either/both without issue. > Interesting. But do both instances use the same profile: 'charles'? I would like the release and development versions to use independent configs, and it seems to me that in this setup it is not the case. Liviu -- Users can unsubscribe from the list by sending email to emelfm2-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field or by logging into the web interface.