On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:32:23AM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 
> > Given that I now see Chris' point.  verexec(1) is really just a very
> > simple run-time mechanism for managing install-time version selection.
> > It could be simpler -just a hardlink- if IPS had an install-time version
> > selection feature instead.
> 
> This doesn't work, because some package needs to own that hardlink -- only
> one can actually deliver the link -- and the maintainers of the packages
> ...

I was thinking of a new action type that IPS could use to manage the
link.  More than one pkg could deliver the same action (obviously
linking to different files) and IPS would pick the onde from the pkg
with the highest version number.

Nico
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