As a general principle, shouldnt apache 2 (and mysql 4) be slotted and something like gcc-config used to switch between them to keep everybody happy?
I don't think this can really be done this way. Slots and programs like gcc-config are all good for libraries and programs that are not running all the time, but for a constantly running daemon, this just doesn't work. How would you switch between them? Ask as startup? That's not practical. Stop the daemon, switch version, start daemon? Anyone running a production machine really can't afford to do this more than once.
This approach also wouldn't work because the binaries names and install directories are the same between versions. It works with different major versions of libraries because they're named differently. It works with gcc because each installation has its own install directory.
How hard is it to manually mask apache-2* and mysql-4*? Why are people turning this into such a big deal? I wasn't using Gentoo when Gnome went from 1.x to 2.x or when KDE went from 2.x to 3.x, but did people make as much fuss?
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