>> If I want two simultaneously installed versions of Perl, how
 >> do I handle that?
> For this you require a second OpenPKG instance, because RPM allows only a
> package to be installed once per instance.

RPM will happily allow you to install two versions of the same package 
side-by-side, provided that there are no file conflicts.  For example:

$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.4.7-10
kernel-2.4.9-21
kernel-2.4.9-31

This will, of course, generally require planning on the part of the 
packager -- binaries can't be named something like "perl", instead they 
need to be named something like "perl561", with postinstall scripts that 
take of creating an appropriate symlink.

-- Lars

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