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jrockway
on Oct 22, 2011
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Ubuntu 11.10, Introduce new top-level directory /r...
./configure --prefix=/some/unique/place
calpaterson
on Oct 22, 2011
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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
on Oct 23, 2011
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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
on Oct 24, 2011
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"Real" users? What does that even mean?
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