Antoine, Do you know if libclutter has different soname's for the different version of the library? Most do, and if it is, it is not very hard to have different versions of a library based on soname. For instance, I have a library that just got a revision to soname 10 from soname 9. Thus libtsk9 and libtsk10 can both co-exist if needed. Once you find out, you should repost your question to the opensuse-packaging list as how to support 2 different versions of a library based on soname. If upstream is not tracking API changes with soname, I don't know how you would do it. Greg On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Antoine Saroufim <antoine.saroufim@gmail.com> wrote:

Good Day,

I'm attempting to port Pantheon, the Elementary Desktop Environment, to openSUSE. With the correct dependencies installed, the process is relatively easy. Alien can make .RPM packages out pf most .deb files. I managed to get most of the desktop working as it would work on Ubuntu 13.04. However, Gala requires a different version of libclutter that conflicts with the one provided in the repositories of openSUSE 12.3.

Gala would be extremely choppy and almost unusable if Elementary's Libclutter isn't installed, and if it is installed, GDM and Lightdm-gtk-greeter wouldn't be able to run. In short, Gala needs a libclutter version that would conflict with openSUSE 12.3. Coding Gala to use a newer version of Libclutter is beyond my skill and so is making Gala use an exclusive version of the library.

Would anyone be interested in porting Gala to openSUSE 12.3?

Sincerely, Antoine Saroufim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

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