Re: Version naming

[Stephen Leake]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> At the cost of a lot of disk space, you can install each of those in a
>> separate chroot. I don't know if that qualifies as "easily" for you;
>
> No, it definitely doesn't qualify.  First, because the problem is to
> solve it within the Debian package system whereas your solution works
> around it.  

Well, my point was you can use the Debian package system in each chroot,
and get different versions of the package installed.

I agree it would be nice to be able to do that in a single root, but I
suspect it is not possible in general, because there could be
conflicting requirements; you'd end up with full copies of /* for each
version anyway.

> - don't install the .debs but just compile manually and "make
> install".

This is certainly what I do, usually without the 'make install'.

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-- Stephe