> That is not correct. The distribution (Debian for now) only contains one > version of The Software.
True, but could there be someday? For example, let's suppose that I have a program I like very much and use daily. Then, Debian changes from KDE2 to KDE3 (or any other big similar change), it stops working. If I don't know Unix very deeply and/or don't have time to compile the old version from sources and install them to /usr/local or /opt (as could easily be the case if I were an administrator in a company, trying to get the poor account managers' favourite sticker printing software to work again), I would sure appreciate if they could at least run them in different X sessions.. Or am I going to far?-) > If you want to try out another version and even > yet a completely odd version you would install it into /usr/local or /opt > and look after symlinks for yourself. There are tools like stow that ease > this task. While transition from potato to woody some time ago I had > two version (3.3.6 and 4.0) of Xfree86 installed and running in exactly > that way. So where's the problem? Sure thing, except that there fewer links to be guarded on XF86 that on KDE. If it could, with some reasonable effort, be easier...? > s/loving loving/people loving/ too much love will kill you :-) "...every time. -Freddie" - Jarno
