On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:56:34 +0200 Andy Mender <andymenderu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe the main problem comes from /bin/bash and potential symlinks that > would need to be introduced as part of the slotting. In a pinch you could probably get away with calling :1 /usr/bin/bash-4.4 instead of /usr/bin/bash, and then offering no luxuries beyond that, leaving it up to the user to do the rest. Then you could test it in ~/ with PATH + Symlink in ~/bin/ ... maybe. There would just not be much point, because the real purpose of testing 4.4 is not for fear of it breaking user experience ( which is a problem, but not the primary motive ), but for making everything else that runs with bash runs OK. Maybe you could do some horrible QA Violation like USE=multislot which changes the slot from :0 and adds the -suffix at the same time. But I still don't think its a useful or good idea.
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