Re: proposal: new ocaml dirs schema
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:41:00PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:16:30AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > The plan i had was to have this other ocaml package installable, and
> > that only people who knew what they where doing could use it. That is
> > why i don't really like Stefano's symlink stuff.
>
> Note that once we have only one ocaml package which depends on
> ocaml-3.06 package (as in these days it should be).
> The user that install ocaml package sees no differences compared with
> the current situation.
>
> The other ocaml-<version> package will not change the symlink when
> installed.
>
> For example I've currently installed packages python, python2.1,
> python2.2 and python2.3, the current debian python version is 2.2
> I've the symlink /usr/bin/python -> python2.2 and users see no
> differences in running python or python2.2, installing packages
> python2.1 and python2.3 doesn't change python symlink but also provides
> two more executables.
> Only when python maintainers decide to bump the debian python version
> they change the python package making it depend on python2.3 and making
> it change the python symlink.
Ok, you have convinced me, i will give it a try.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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