On Saturday 17 June 2006 11:23, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > But: For me as user/sysadmin....what advantage I would have to > install two versions of KDE-pakets ?
The advantage is that you can test one before you remove the other. Or let it be up to the individual user which version (s)he prefers by having both installed. Now they made it slotted because the different minor versions of KDE do not mix. If they allowed them to mix it would result in unpredictable bugs that would make supporting KDE a nightmare. So to avoid that they are mixed they had two options. One is to make them slotted like they did and which results in great flexibility. The *only* other alternative would have been to make them block each other and hence require that you removed the old version before you could even test if the new version were able to compile much less if it actually worked. -- Bo Andresen
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