On Wednesday 2023-09-27 06:54, Stefan Seyfried via openSUSE Factory wrote:
(OMG, I'm participating in this stupid thread... m)
guilty pleasures...
quite often commercial (or noncommercial...) thirdparty software is rather not built against the latest and greatest library version but some older version in a debian stable or similar distribution.
and Slowroll is unlikely to change thirdparty stances
So one solution to this problem in tumbleweed / slowroll might be to actually keep multiple, even older library versions around in tumbleweed, similar to what is already done e.g. with openssl versions:
Generally, software is not retained to make an external pieces of software happy. It is retained to keep some piece of old software *already in TW* building. Anecdotally, that old software is sometimes even more so on lifesupport than the external piece of software, which is why it may *seem* that we keep old libraries for external software, but don't actually.