Re: Installing incompatible major versions of packages alongside each other

2016-07-22 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 03:02:10PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > For example right now I can't install icedtea-7: "guix package: error: > > icedtea: package not found for version 7" > > There’s no version 7, but there are other versions available: > > --8<---cut here-

Re: Installing incompatible major versions of packages alongside each other

2016-07-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: >> In the former command-line package specification syntax, which is still >> supported but deprecated, “ptpython-2” was taken to mean “version 2 of >> package ‘ptpython’”. Because of this, you cannot refer to this >> “ptpython-2” package from the command-

Installing incompatible major versions of packages alongside each other

2016-07-22 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, > In the former command-line package specification syntax, which is still > supported but deprecated, “ptpython-2” was taken to mean “version 2 of > package ‘ptpython’”. Because of this, you cannot refer to this > “ptpython-2” package from the command-line (except with -e). > > The solu