Re: concurrent installation of different pkg versions
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 02:07:22PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> it would be a great advantage for Debian over the other distributions
>> to have the capacity to install multiple versions concurrently.
> No, no it wouldn't.
> This is how rpm handles library packages. It's a horror show.
All of our research computing systems run Red Hat (or CentOS) because
that's where the people who care about concurrent installation of
different versions have gone, since no one in the Debian and Ubuntu world
with influence seems to care about their problems. And simultaneous
installation of multiple versions of packages is simply a requirement for
many research computing scenarios, usually because there's a lot of
bespoke scientific code that accomplishes some specific goal but was not
written to the standards one would expect from professional programmers,
and therefore doesn't easily work with newer versions of libraries.
Just something to keep in mind.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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