Jarno Elonen, on 2002-01-17, 09:55, you wrote: > It's that they grow /usr/bin quite a lot faster than any "conventional" unix > tools and make it very hard to have multiple versions of the desktop on a > same computer. Unlike libc5/libc6 for example, KDE for example consist of
That is not correct. The distribution (Debian for now) only contains one version of The Software. If you want to try out another version and even yet a completely odd version you would install it into /usr/local or /opt and look after symlinks for yourself. There are tools like stow that ease this task. While transition from potato to woody some time ago I had two version (3.3.6 and 4.0) of Xfree86 installed and running in exactly that way. So where's the problem? > I don't have first hand experince on this; some people on the kde-list > mentioned at least Suse and RH if I remember correctly. Don't beat me but SuSE's file hierarchy is nothing but a big mess. Especially for loving loving Debian ;-) Joerg -- Joerg "joergland" Wendland GPG: 51CF8417 FP: 79C0 7671 AFC7 315E 657A F318 57A3 7FBD 51CF 8417
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