Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 02:07:22PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> 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. All of our research computing systems run Red Hat (or CentOS) because that's where the people who care about concurrent installation of different versions have gone, since no one in the Debian and Ubuntu world with influence seems to care about their problems. And simultaneous installation of multiple versions of packages is simply a requirement for many research computing scenarios, usually because there's a lot of bespoke scientific code that accomplishes some specific goal but was not written to the standards one would expect from professional programmers, and therefore doesn't easily work with newer versions of libraries. Just something to keep in mind. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87eh0kns4i....@windlord.stanford.edu