Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > >> honnestly, please find *ONE* application where alternatives can't >> solve your problem, and where upstream design would still allow to >> have both instances installed. I've though hard enough, and I've >> found none. > > You might want to have, say, multiple installations of apache (because > the 32 bit version uses PHP and you use a proprietary PHP plugin), > while you want to serve DVD images with your 64 bit apache (since > apache 2.2 isn't in unstable yet and so you need a 64 bit apache to > handle > 2GB files on 32 bit platforms). > > Your point still holds though, applications where coinstallation is > needed are rare and in those cases applications can either implement a > solution themselves or tell the user to use /usr/local or ~. > > - tfheen
But those apaches have to run on different ports or they should switch over seemlessly whenever the php plugin is used. So this needs a certain amount of package adoption already. Lets just add the alternatives there too. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]