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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.9
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
It would be nice to be able to define alternatives with priorities
working in the way of dpkg --compare-versions. This wouldn't break the
existing alternatives, and would permit packages to use their current
version when multiple parallel installations should be prioritized.
Examples: gstreamer0.6/0.8/0.10, java 1.4.2/1.5.0 ...
Regards,
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Loïc Minier <[email protected]>
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Hi!
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 21:54:49 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Loïc Minier wrote:
> > It would be nice to be able to define alternatives with priorities
> > working in the way of dpkg --compare-versions. This wouldn't break the
> > existing alternatives, and would permit packages to use their current
> > version when multiple parallel installations should be prioritized.
> > Examples: gstreamer0.6/0.8/0.10, java 1.4.2/1.5.0 ...
>
> It would break existing alternatives as we have negative priorities that
> are not supported as version numbers. I'm tempted to simply reject the
> suggestion as it doesn't seem to bring much.
We'd need to support epochs as well I guess.
> What do other people think?
Agreed. Additionally I think in this case it might be better to use
default packages, in a similar way as currently done by gcc.
So closing.
regards,
guillem
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