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
