Re: [LAU] Building ffmpeg (was: Building avplay)

On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 14:23 -0400, jonetsu wrote: Keeping the tons of packages and just overwriting could work, too. Assuming two versions of libs are provided, this shouldn't cause an issue. Anyway, as soon as something compiled by yourself gets upgarded by repositories, or a dependency of something you compiled, you could run into trouble. Fortunately Ubuntu stays with major versions of libs, usually only dot versions should change, so you shouldn't expect soname issues, but OTOH you're using Mint and not Ubuntu. You could hold/lock packages. Note, a package locked by Synaptic might not be hold by apt. Regards, Ralf