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Re: concurrent installation of different pkg versions



 ❦ 26 avril 2014 07:07 CEST, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> :

> it would be a great advantage for Debian over the other distributions to have
> the capacity to install multiple versions concurrently.
>
> That does not mean that it would be a good idea to install multiple versions of
> core packages.  However, on multi-user systems, the ususal approach is that the
> administrator tells the users to go compile their specialised programs
> themselves.  In Debian, these programs are typically in leaf packages that have
> simple dependancy trees and tend to work well unmodified on multiple releases.
>
> If we could use APT to leverage resources like snapshot.debian.org, this would
> give Debian a strong momentum on that use case.  Of course, I understand that
> implementing this properly is a lot of work.

I would be a lot simpler to leverage containers.
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panic("Foooooooood fight!");
	2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aha1542.c

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