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That it is an incremental fix for a terrible ad-hoc file-system design that has invaded almost all Linux distributions. You still can't easily install 2 versi

• jrockway 15y ago
  ./configure --prefix=/some/unique/place
  • calpaterson 15y ago
    His point is that dpkg is unable to support installation of multiple versions of a package. update-alternatives and having custom packaging (like with python2.6 and python2.7) solves some of this issue, but Gobolinux deals with it a lot better
    • jrockway 15y ago
      My point is that it's very easy to do this, but that no real users of Debian want it enough to begin doing it.
      • calpaterson 15y ago
        "Real" users? What does that even mean?