On 5/10/06, Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org> wrote:
> Does it also allow multiple versions of the same package to be > installed at the same time? > For example, multiple minor versions or multiple major versions? Read the papers listed in the wiki. The short answer is no, same as it is today with single-arch. As explained in the papers, trying to do anything else results in a complex dependency nightmare.
That's a shame, as I think a lot of the infrastructure required for multiple architectures overlaps with that required for multiple versions.