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Author: Hendrik Boom
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Subject: Re: [DNG] leveldb support proposal

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:37:30AM +0000, Noel Torres wrote:
> Let's forget what is NOT important
>
> "Ivan J." <parazyd@???> escribió:
> [...]
> >What I am proposing is Devuan to support multiple versions of leveldb
> >and tie Bitcoin packages to the right one. Another option is to never
> [...]
>
> This is not only an issue with so-called leveldb. It happens a lot
> that two packages you need request different versions of the same
> library, not always co-installable. Mostly if you go beyond
> "stable". Or even if you got stuck on oldstable and try to install
> some simple new package.
>
> And this is a good amount of the "dependency hell" when it comes to
> Desktop users.
>
> So, I think that having some way of installing multiple versions of
> the same library would be a useful feature. Heck, even windows does
> that in (some) right way.
>
> Aptitude would, of course, take care of the not-anymore-needed versions.
>
> So, forget Bitcoin for a moment and think: is this something it
> would be worth having for Devuan as a whole?


Doesn't zeroinstall do something like this using massive numbers of
symbolic links? Though I feel like there should be a better way.

Or do I have it mixed up with another system?

-- hendrik

>
> Noel
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