Comment 56 for bug 197163

Well, I am not an expert, but I think that it is Mathematica problem mainly because it installs some libraries, but it does not care if they are already installed in the system, nor if they are at least compatible. You should be or warned during the install that these libraries are duplicit and their versions do not match, and probably asked to decide which one you would like Mathematica to use...

Obviously if you are developing program for an open source system, which is in never ending development you should care about these questions (dependencies, etc.)