On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:03:44AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: > > But currently it's not possible to install 2 (or more) packages with the > > same name. So a user can't have guile 2.0 and guile 1.8 in the same > > profile. The same thing with python: there is no ‘python2’ package. > > Both python packages have “python” name and can't be installed in the > > same profile, as far as I understand. > > Good point! (Somehow I thought there was ‘python2’.)
Is it really not possible to install two packages with the same name? I thought you could do guix package -i python python-2.7.6 where the first one will chose the latest package? It just requires that there are no overlapping paths. Andreas
