Re: [OT] Scripts, packages, etc.

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:19:37 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.package
Organization	What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

"Nicholas E. Walker" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:48:49AM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> "Nicholas E. Walker" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Downgrading packages to known-stable versions is tedious at best
>>> through impossible, when one does not have copies of the now
>>> 'outdated' (and thus unavailable) packages.
>>
>> I don't see how any packaging system can be expected to solve that.
>
> The /package mechanism allows one to install a potentially unstable
> version of a package without needing even to set it as the system
> 'default' (i.e. the one with commands linked into /command).  One can
> have multiple versions installed in parallel (and never need to
> downgrade for lack of a need to upgrade).

Sure, but that's different from being able to downgrade without having
a copy of the old version.


paul