Re: Conflict between doc-central and Koffice
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 09:52:34 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> In FreeBSD it's possible to have multiple versions of say, tcl/tk, which
> is infamous for incompatible versions. It does this by installing each as
> [package_name].[version].
>
> Couldn't Debian do something like this?
Debian does something like this. See e.g. the packages for the various
versions of Tcl/Tk, or the standard C++ library, or libdb. For Python a
policy to allow multiple versions to coexist in a sane fashion was developed
only recently, and not all packages have been updated to follow that policy,
so occasionally problems like yours still occur.
HTH,
Ray
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