Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

[Petr Èech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>]

Adam Lazur wrote:
> The ability to install more than one version of a package simultaneously.

Hmm. SO you install bash 2.04-1 and bash 2.02-3. Now what will be /bin/bash
2.04 or 2.02 version? You will divert both of them and symlink it to the old
name - maybe, but but how will you know, to what name it diverts to use it?

Give me please 3 sane examples, why you need this. And no, shared libraries
are NOT an excuse for this.

> Some intelligence for handling multiple machines. Like the ability to nfs
> mount /usr and have the package manager understand what's going on.

sounds like something like --exclude /usr (didn't doogie implement this in 1.8
branch?)

				Petr Cech