On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:37:30AM +0000, Noel Torres wrote: > Let's forget what is NOT important > > "Ivan J." <[email protected]> escribió: > [...] > >What I am proposing is Devuan to support multiple versions of leveldb > >and tie Bitcoin packages to the right one. Another option is to never > [...] > > This is not only an issue with so-called leveldb. It happens a lot > that two packages you need request different versions of the same > library, not always co-installable. Mostly if you go beyond > "stable". Or even if you got stuck on oldstable and try to install > some simple new package. > > And this is a good amount of the "dependency hell" when it comes to > Desktop users. > > So, I think that having some way of installing multiple versions of > the same library would be a useful feature. Heck, even windows does > that in (some) right way. > > Aptitude would, of course, take care of the not-anymore-needed versions. > > So, forget Bitcoin for a moment and think: is this something it > would be worth having for Devuan as a whole?
Doesn't zeroinstall do something like this using massive numbers of symbolic links? Though I feel like there should be a better way. Or do I have it mixed up with another system? -- hendrik > > Noel > er Envite > pub 1024D/EEC7C372 2004-03-19 Noel Torres (Envite) <[email protected]> > uid Noel David Torres Taño (Envite) > <[email protected]> > uid Noel Torres (Envite) <[email protected]> > uid Noel David Torres Taño <[email protected]> > uid Noel David Torres Ta\xf1\x6f (Departamento de > Astronom\xed\x61 y Astrof\xed\x73ica) <[email protected]> > sub 2048g/40100883 2004-03-19 > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
