On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 02:07:22PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:41:17AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit :
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:

> > > a generalized approach is needed.

> > Multiple versions of a package seems undesirable to me, for the same
> > reasons as static libraries and embedded code copies are undesirable.

> Hi Paul and everybody,

> it would be a great advantage for Debian over the other distributions to have
> the capacity to install multiple versions concurrently.

No, no it wouldn't.

This is how rpm handles library packages.  It's a horror show.

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