Re: Summary of KDE filesystem discussion
> That is not correct. The distribution (Debian for now) only contains one
> version of The Software.
True, but could there be someday? For example, let's suppose that I have a
program I like very much and use daily. Then, Debian changes from KDE2 to
KDE3 (or any other big similar change), it stops working.
If I don't know Unix very deeply and/or don't have time to compile the old
version from sources and install them to /usr/local or /opt (as could easily
be the case if I were an administrator in a company, trying to get the poor
account managers' favourite sticker printing software to work again), I would
sure appreciate if they could at least run them in different X sessions..
Or am I going to far?-)
> If you want to try out another version and even
> yet a completely odd version you would install it into /usr/local or /opt
> and look after symlinks for yourself. There are tools like stow that ease
> this task. While transition from potato to woody some time ago I had
> two version (3.3.6 and 4.0) of Xfree86 installed and running in exactly
> that way. So where's the problem?
Sure thing, except that there fewer links to be guarded on XF86 that on KDE.
If it could, with some reasonable effort, be easier...?
> s/loving loving/people loving/ too much love will kill you :-)
"...every time. -Freddie"
- Jarno
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