hmm, couldn't figure out a way to login to reply.
Hackage wrote:
Replying to [ticket:220 duncan]:
> The longer term solution is to allow installing multiple instances of
the same versions of a package built against different versions of its
dependencies. This is the functional Nix approach however it would
probably also require support from ghc.
Couldn't this lead to an exponential explosion in the number of package
instances?
only if you *actually* install all possible combinations, which seems
unlikely. If you're worried about all the old cruft hanging around
taking up space, maybe looking at Nix's garbage collection and other
features would be good sharing of experience. Maybe (with the user's
permission) pre-emptively upgrading some things sometimes would help...
not sure.
-Isaac
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