Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 03:31:15PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: >> I think the latter is a bug. IMHO it shouldn't be possible to install >> several packages with the same name in one profile. > > Well, having python 2 and 3 is reasonable, and from what I saw in their > naming scheme, it is entirely possible (the python binary being renamed > to python 3). Qt 4 and 5 are, I think, another case. How about GTK+ 2 and 3?
Actually, Qt 4 and 5 use non-versioned file names under bin/. Technically it would be easy to allow the installation of different versions of a package in the same profile, but I wonder about the implications. For instance, ‘-u foo’ would upgrade all the installed versions of ‘foo’, so you would end up with exactly the same version twice. Ludo’.
