Re: [OT] Scripts, packages, etc.

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:54:29 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.package
Organization	What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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"D. J. Bernstein" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul Jarc writes:
>> To be fair, /etc/alternatives is only one part of Debian's package
>> management system.  Other parts do detect when a dependency needs to
>> be upgraded, AFAIK.
>
> Those other parts don't allow multiple versions to be installed at the
> same time. They don't allow undoing an upgrade without reinstalling the
> previous version.

Right.  I was only remarking on that one problem.


paul