On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:16:41PM -0800, John Plocher wrote: > My suggestion is to take a step back and ask what the best possible > result might look like. > > When /I/ do that, I get something that smells a lot more like the Java > JDK mechanism (everything under /usr/jdk/$version, with /usr/java > being a symlink to the default version) than this current "some stuff > in /usr, but other stuff that is the same, but different in /opt, > depending on what time of day it is in Sun's compiler marketing > department" :-) Of course, /your/ mileage may vary, may contain nuts, > etc...
+1. For N versions of the Sun Studio C/C++/dbx Collection deliver N sets of pkgs, all installing into distinct locations below /usr/lib. And also deliver pkgs for selecting the default version: one pkg installs links, or one pkg installs shell scripts that lookup which version to use using a config file.
