> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:45 -0700, Philip Brown > wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:00:28PM -0700, Erast > Benson wrote:
> multiple versions of the same package sounds like a > crazy idea to me. It > is practically not used. But as I outlined above, it > is possible with > APT. > > Me as a user, do not like to have multiple instances > of system software > unless major versions which offer different feature > set, i.e. gcc-3.4 > gcc-4.0, etc But if multiple versions of gcc are > installed I prefer to > have a way to configure defaults, and then I tend to > use Debian > alternatives methods. > Is gcc 4.x a good example? I was under the impression that not all Solaris gcc fixes are in the 4.x build tree. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
