On Jan 29, 2026, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > [...] > Now, my question is why is it that one would not be able to adopt some > system convention allowing various versions of the same package to be > installed side by side, and therefore avoid a lot of the 'dependency > hell' situations that users sometimes get themselves into? It seems to > me like a much more natural evolution of application packaging than the > current container driven trends.
You just described update-alternatives(1) Dependency hell is more the case that "X relies on Y, but Z is installed" (because A relied on Z, and you're not asking to uninstall A); or a worse mess that almost goes in circles. Outside of doing bad things (or compiling questionable things from source), I haven't really gotten into Dependency Hell in nearly 2 decades.
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