On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:32:29PM +0100, Axel Dörfler wrote: > Am 12/11/2014 22:22, schrieb François Revol: > >I'd rather have the older version with a patched name, so the generic > >one can be updated... ie libpng15 and libpng for 1.6... > > Why do we need to take special care in the first place? The packages will > have different names, and their shared object names usually have the version > in there, too. Only the libpng.so link in _devel should be a problem. > Am I missing something here? If both packages provide "libpng" (the package name), it's not possible to install them side by side. libsolv will want to uninstall the older one. -- Adrien.