Re: Software collections in Debian?

[Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl>]

Op Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:51:20 +0100 schreef Curt <curty@free.fr>:

> On 2017-02-10, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:55:24AM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> > > Does Debian support the "software collections" machinery from RedHat?  
> > > Or will
> > > it support them in the near future? Googling indicates that the answer  
> > > is "no"
> > > but I can't find a flat-out statement so far. Thanks...Nick G
> >
> > I suspect that these are called "tasks" in debian. See the "tasksel"
> > program for more details.
>
> That's what I thought until I looked it up.
>
>
>  With Software Collections, you can build and concurrently install  
> multiple
>  versions of the same software components on your system. Software  
> Collections
>  have no impact on the system versions of the packages installed by any  
> of the
>  conventional RPM package management utilities.

This sounds like flatpak
http://flatpak.org/

and is available in Debian