Re: Problems with downloading from https

[Andreas Enge]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:03:44AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
> > But currently it's not possible to install 2 (or more) packages with the
> > same name.  So a user can't have guile 2.0 and guile 1.8 in the same
> > profile.  The same thing with python: there is no ‘python2’ package.
> > Both python packages have “python” name and can't be installed in the
> > same profile, as far as I understand.
> 
> Good point! (Somehow I thought there was ‘python2’.)

Is it really not possible to install two packages with the same name?
I thought you could do
   guix package -i python python-2.7.6
where the first one will chose the latest package? It just requires that
there are no overlapping paths.

Andreas